Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.