Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – 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