Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

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

Bifurcation embraces the weapon of success and failure.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

This woman is a virus and she’s eating me alive.

If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have no right to be.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

We can never be born enough.

There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.

I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.