Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband
—Wendy Wunder in The Probability of Miracles