The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel ButlerThe advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel ButlerBooks want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
Samuel Butler