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, poet (1612-1680)
It wounded him to think that he would be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture and that monkish learning...was held no higher by the age he lived in then the subtle and curious jargons of heraldry and falconry.
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, poet (1612-1680)
