A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the ...

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by deno ...

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.