Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler