One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel ButlerTo know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel ButlerA man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler