Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler farmed sheep in New Zealand, made enough money to return to England, and then spent his life writing across subjects that had no business sharing an author: the satirical utopia Erewhon, a posthumous novel demolishing Victorian family piety, arguments against Darwin's mechanism, and a theory that the Odyssey was written by a woman. His notebooks are where the aphorisms come from, and they are consistently better than his reputation.