Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.