Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.