The Best Use Of A Journal Is

Great Grief Makes Sacred Those Upon Whom Its Hand Is Laid. Joy May Elevate, Ambition Glorify, But Sorrow Alone Can Consecrate.

Do Not Lounge In The Cities! There Is Room & Health In The Country, Away From The Crowds Of Idlers & Imbeciles. Go West, Before You Are Fitted For No Life But That Of The Factory.

Mr. Lincoln Is Already Defeated. He Cannot Be Re-elected.

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

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