Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.