There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. – Samuel Butler
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. – Samuel Butler
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. – 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