Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. – Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. – Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler