No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.