Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Tough times teach trust.

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.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.