It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler