The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

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

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

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Money is more trouble than it is worth.