TheTimes is, we suppose, entitled to the character it gives of itself, of being the'leading journal of Europe', and is perhaps the greatest engine of temporary opinion in the world.

-Hazlitt,William
  In the Edinburgh Review, May.

Will they ever forgive me for writing Roughing It? They know that it was thetruth, but have I not been a mark for every vulgar editor of a village journal, throughout the length and breadth of the land to hurl a stone at, and point out as the enemy to Canada.

-Moodie, Susanna ne¤  e Strickland
  Letter to her publisher, Richard Bentley,19  Aug.

A busy manwho can keep up a daily journal resembles a Steel person preparing for bed with the shades up† When such a man publishes parts of his journal, the reader must conclude he always knew the lights were on.

-Starr, Roger
  On George F Kennan Sketches From a Life (1989). In the Washington Post, 8 May.