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

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

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

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.

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

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.