Samuel Butler

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.