Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. – Samuel Butler
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. – Samuel Butler
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler
Man is Gods highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. – 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