While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.