Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. – Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. – Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – 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
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. – Samuel Butler