Newspapers.—In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.—Heinrich Heine.
Before this century shall run out journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light; instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth; it will spread from Pole to Pole, suddenly burning with the fervor of soul which made it burst forth; it will be the reign of the human mind in all its plenitude; it will not have time to ripen, to accumulate in the form of a book; the book will arrive too late; the only book possible from day to day is a newspaper.—Lamartine.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.—Napoleon.
They preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves; advising peace or war with an authority which only the first Reformers and a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting moral censure; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification; in all ways diligently "administering the discipline of the Church." It may be said, too, that in private disposition the new preachers somewhat resemble the mendicant Friars of old times; outwardly, full of holy zeal; inwardly, not without stratagem, and hunger for terrestrial things.—Carlyle.
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.—Johnson.
Night.—Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.—Mrs. Barbauld.
The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night.—Longfellow.
Sable-vested night, eldest of things.—Milton.
O mysterious night! Thou art not silent: many tongues hast thou.—Joanna Baillie.
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.—Bible.