Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. – Samuel Butler
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler
Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, translated from German