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

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

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

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.

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

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.

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