The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.