Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. – Samuel Butler
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – Samuel Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. – Samuel Butler
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – 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
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881