At the Earth's Core

“But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Bowen!" she cried. "Your knife!””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Perry used to say that if a fellow was one-tenth as remarkable as his wife or mother thought him, he would have the world by the tail with a down-hill drag.””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“And with these thoughts came a realization of how unimportant to the life and happiness of the world is the existence of any one of us. We may be snuffed out without an instant's warning, and for a brief day our friends speak of us with subdued voices. The following morning, while the first worm is busily engaged in testing the construction of our coffin, they are teeing up for the first hole to suffer more acute sorrow over a sliced ball than they did over our, to us, untimely demise.””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“It was all a matter of chance and so I set off down that which seemed the easiest going, and in this I made the same mistake that many of us do in selecting the path along which we shall follow out the course of our lives, and again learned that it is not always best to follow the line of least resistance.””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“She told me that she was called Dian the Beautiful, and that she belonged to the tribe of Amoz, which dwells in the cliffs above the Darel Az, or shallow sea.””

— Edgar Rice Burroughs