Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions