The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler
Such as take lodgings in a head thats to be let unfurnished. – Samuel Butler

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler
Such as take lodgings in a head thats to be let unfurnished. – Samuel Butler
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. – Justin Cronin