The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.