To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler
Brigands demand your money or your life women require both. – Samuel Butler
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge