If Any Of My Men Kill Prisoners,

Must Swear Off From Swearing. Bad Habit.

The Bold Enterprises Are The Successful Ones. Take Counsel Of Hopes Rather Than Of Fears To Win In This Business.

Let Every Man, Every Corporation, And Especially Let Every Village, Town, And City, Every County And State, Get Out Of Debt And Keep Out Of Debt. It Is The Debtor That Is Ruined By Hard Times.

A Few Ideas Seem To Be Agreed Upon. Help None But Those Who Help Themselves. Educate Only At Schools Which Provide In Some Form For Industrial Education. These Two Points Should Be Insisted Upon. Let The Normal Instruction Be That Men Must Earn Their Own Living, And That By The Labor Of Their Hands As Far As May Be. This Is The Gospel Of Salvation For The Colored Man. Let The Labor Not Be Servile, But In Manly Occupations Like That Of The Carpenter, The Farmer, And The Blacksmith.

The Gloomy Theology Of The Orthodox--the Calvinists--i Do Not, I Cannot Believe. Many Of The Notions--nay, Most Of The Notions--which Orthodox People Have Of The Divinity Of The Bible, I Disbelieve. I Am So Nearly Infidel In All My Views, That Too, In Spite Of My Wishes, That None But The Most Liberal Doctrines Can Command My Assent.