The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.