You May Be Witty, But Not Satirical.

Nine-tenths Of The World Is Entertained By Scandalous Rumors, Which Are Never Dissected Until They Are Dead And, When Pricked, Collapse Like An Empty Bladder.

If, On A Full And Final Review, My Life And Practice Shall Be Found Unworthy Of My Principles, Let Due Infamy Be Heaped On My Memory; But Let None Be Led Thereby To Distrust The Principles To Which I Proved Recreant, Nor Yet The Ability Of Some To Adorn Them By A Suitable Life And Conversation. To Unerring Time Be All This Committed.

While The Right Of Suffrage Is Conceded To Thousands Notoriously Ignorant, Vicious, And Drunken, ... A Constitutional Denial To Black Men, As Such, Of Political Rights Freely Secured To White Men, Is Monstrously Unjust And Irrational.

The Illusion That Times That Were Are Better Than Those That Are, Has Probably Pervaded All Ages.

Journalism Kills You, But It Keeps You Alive As Long As You're Doing It.