Who said “The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”?

“Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.”

“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”

“In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.”

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”

“You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.”

“Lawyers I suppose were children once.”

“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”

“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”

“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.”

“Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.”