“Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.”

“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.”

“Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”

“The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.”

“Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness...”

“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.”