Rather no journalism at all for him! He thought the office of the ordinary daily preacher cowlike.

His gadfly stung him to warn, dictate, prognosticate; he was the oracle and martyr of superior vision: and as in affairs of business and the weighing of men he was of singularly cool sagacity, hard on the downright, open to the humours of the distinct discrimination of things in their roughness, the knowledge of the firmly-based materialism of his nature caused him thoroughly to trust to his voice when he delivered it in ardour--circumstance coming to be of daily recurrence.

Great love creates forethoughtfulness, without which incessant journalism is a gabble.

He was sure of his love, but who gave ear to his prescience?
Few: the echo of the country now and then, the Government not often.

And, dear me! those jog-trot sermonisers, mere commentators upon events, manage somehow to keep up the sale of their journals: advertisements do not flow and ebb with them as under the influence of a capricious moon.