Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.