Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.