To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.