Horace Greeley Quotes
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If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
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Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
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I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
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Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.
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Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
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We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.
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Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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Common sense is very uncommon.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.