Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tr… - Samuel Butler

They were gentlemen in the full sense of the word; and what has one not said in saying this?

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.

[Ideas] are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them.