Samuel Butler
  • Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

  • A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  • The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  • Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.

  • Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.