You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.