All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler