Samuel Butler Quotes
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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 I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.