Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'