We were always going to be rich next year--no occasion to work.

It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich--these are wholesome; but to begin it _prospectively_ rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
My parents removed to Missouri in the early thirties; I do not remember just when, for I was not born then, and cared nothing for such things.
It was a long journey in those days, and must have been a rough and tiresome one.

The home was made in the wee village of Florida, in Monroe county, and I was born there in 1835.

The village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by one per cent.

It is more than the best man in history ever did for any other town.