The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility

I have no ear.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.