A Cigar Has "...a Fire At One

If, On A Full And Final Review, My Life And Practice Shall Be Found Unworthy Of My Principles, Let Due Infamy Be Heaped On My Memory; But Let None Be Led Thereby To Distrust The Principles To Which I Proved Recreant, Nor Yet The Ability Of Some To Adorn Them By A Suitable Life And Conversation. To Unerring Time Be All This Committed.

The Illusion That Times That Were Are Better Than Those That Are, Has Probably Pervaded All Ages.

If Any Young Man Is About To Commence The World, We Say To Him, Publicly And Privately, Go To The West

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.

Go West, Young Man, Go West. There Is Health In The Country, And Room Away From Our Crowds Of Idlers And Imbeciles.