The real yellow peril: Gold.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
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.