The want of money is the root of all evil. – Samuel Butler
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil. – Samuel Butler
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – 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
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. – Samuel Butler