The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler