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.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

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.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

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