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

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

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.