Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. – Samuel Butler
A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler