Samuel Butler: I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. — Samuel Butler

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide hi — Samuel Butler
Always eat grapes downwards — that is, always eat the best grape first; in this — Samuel Butler
To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he — Samuel Butler
We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long — Samuel Butler
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. — Anton Chekhov
bonus iudex damnat inprobanda, non odit. — Seneca
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist . — Abraham Lincoln
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that — Michel de Montaigne
إذا رَأيْتَ نُيُوبَ اللّيْثِ بارِزَةً فَلا تَظُنّنّ أنّ اللّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُ — Al-Mutanabbi
Amicus est tanquam alter idem. — A friend is
He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and self — Henry David Thoreau