Editors and orators are made.

Many essential elements enter into the editorial fabrication; need to be concentrated upon and embodied by a single individual, and even, with these, environment is left to supply the opportunity and give the final touch.
Aptitude, as the first ingredient, goes without saying of every line of human endeavor.

We have the authority of the adage for the belief that it is not possible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Yet have I known some unpromising tyros mature into very capable workmen.
The modern newspaper, as we know it, may be fairly said to have been the invention of James Gordon Bennett, the elder.

Before him there were journals, not newspapers.