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
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – 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