"What a marvellous opportunity for attacking the devil!"

"What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message. I am not by any means so ardent a Radical or …"

"The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the people. It is the visible speech if not the voice of t…"

"No journalist is omnipotent, and even the most powerful journalist cannot influence those who do not read his paper. …"

"The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman."

"It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a func…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"