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.

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

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.