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
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. – Samuel Butler
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron