Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.