Samuel Butler Quotes
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.