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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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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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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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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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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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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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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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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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
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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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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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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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Common sense is very uncommon.
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Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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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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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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There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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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.