“The axe is the healthiest implement that man ever handled, and is especially so for habitual writers and other sedentary workers, whose shoulders it throws back, expanding their chests, and opening their lungs. If every youth and man, from fifteen… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers,… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image