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
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. – Samuel Butler
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler
All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it. – Dave Barry