Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler