For the many times we've laughed,
For your kindness to my craft,
Let me dedicate to you
The book of mine I hold most true.
"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence."
SAMUEL BUTLER.
"I think the Church Catechism has a good deal to do with the unhappy relations that commonly even now exist between parents and children. That work was written too exclusively from the parental point of view; the person who composed it did not get a few children to come in and help him....
"If a new edition of the work is ever required I should like to introduce a few words insisting on the duty of seeking all reasonable pleasure and avoiding all pain that can be honourably avoided. I should like to see children taught that they should not say they like things which they do not like merely because certain other people say they like them, and how foolish it is to say they believe this or that when they understand nothing about it."
SAMUEL BUTLER.