When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.