To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – 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
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