Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she knew why Atlas stood so tall.

No one can help us except our own thoughts.

If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

The tiny madman in his padded cell.