Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.