A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel ButlerWhen a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler