The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler