Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel ButlerVirtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel ButlerThe dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler