Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

Whether the universe is really a paying concern, or whether it is an inflated bubble that must burst sooner or later, this is another matter. If people were to demand cash payment in irrefragable certainty for everything that they have taken hitherto as paper money on the credit of the bank of public opinion, is there money enough behind it all to stand so great a drain even on so great a reserve?


Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)


Whether the universe is really a paying concern, or whether it is an inflated bubble that must burst sooner or later, this is another matter. If...

Whether the universe is really a paying concern, or whether it is an inflated bubble that must burst sooner or later, this is another matter. If...

Whether the universe is really a paying concern, or whether it is an inflated bubble that must burst sooner or later, this is another matter. If...

Whether the universe is really a paying concern, or whether it is an inflated bubble that must burst sooner or later, this is another matter. If...