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
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler