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.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.