Mythology represents Cerberus a monster dog at the mouth of hell, but he has had a long line of puppies.

They start out at editors, teachers, philanthropists and Christians.

If these men go right on their way, they perform their mission and get their reward, but one-half of them stop and make attempt to silence the literary, political and ecclesiastical curs that snap at them.
Many an author has got a drop of printers' ink spattered in his eye, and collapsed.

The critic who had lobsters for supper the night before, and whose wife in the morning had parted his hair on the wrong side, snarled at the new book, and the time that the author might have spent in new work he squanders in gunning for critics.

You might better have gone straight ahead, Nick! You will come to be estimated for exactly what you are worth.
If a fool, no amount of newspaper or magazine puffery can set you up; and if you are useful, no amount of newspaper or magazine detraction can keep you down.