In law, nothing is certain but the expense. – Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. – Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. – Samuel Butler
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. – G.K. Chesterton
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. – Whittaker Chambers