Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
Samuel Butler quote Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler quote Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler quote A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler quote A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler quote A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Samuel Butler quote Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
Samuel Butler quote Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler quote Biography
English novelist
