Horace Greeley

“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.”

“Common sense is very uncommon.”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”

“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.”

“The best business you can go into you will find on your father's farm or in his workshop.”

“The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”

“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”

“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people.”

“Duty and today are ours; results and the future belong to God.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

“The people need to be taught to trust themselves.”

“A life of ignoble ease, of passing pleasures and paltry concerns, is a spectacle as sad as it is contemptible.”