The Press Nowadays Is Not

There Is Nothing So Inconvenient In This World As An Absolutely Truthful Person, Who Can Both Speak And Write, And Has The Courage Of His Convictions. One Can Always Arrange Matters With Liars ... But With The Man Or Woman Who Holds Truth Dearer Than Life, And Honor More Valuable Than Advancement, There Is Nothing To Be Done, Now That Governments Cannot Insist On The Hemlock-cure, As In The Case Of Socrates.

It Seems A Silly Kind O' Business To Bring Us Into The World At All For No Special Reason 'cept To Take Us Out Of It Again Just As Folks 'ave Learned To Know Us A Bit And Find Us Useful.

For Though There Never Was So Much Reading Matter Put Before The Public, There Was Never Less Actual 'reading' In The Truest And Highest Sense Of The Term Than There Is At Present.

Patriotism Is Understood To Be That Virtue Which Consists In Serving One's Country; But In What Way Is This 'patria' Or Country Served By Slaying Its Able Bodied Men In Thousands?

And Out Of Heart's Pain Comes Heart's Peace; And Out Of Desire, Accomplishment.