Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. – Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. – Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – 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