Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.