It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. – Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. – Samuel Butler
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – Samuel Butler