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

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.”

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”

“I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”