Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

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.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

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

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Life is a playground and a laboratory

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

I worry that drugs have forced us to be more creative than we really are.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.