The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better