Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. Fortunately, in America journalism has carried its authority to the grossest and most brutal extreme. As a natural consequence it has begun to create a spirit of revolt, people are amused by it, or disgusted by it, according to their temperaments. but it is no longer the real force it was. It is not seriously treated. In England, journalism, except in a few well-known instances, not having been carried to such excesses of brutality, is still a great factor, a remarkable power. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people's private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.