A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.