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.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Modesty and dew love the shade.