Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Talent without tact is only half talent.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

The way we do things is to begin.