It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.