You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself .

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.