Quote: The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: 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. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: God cannot alter the past, but historians can. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. [Samuel Butler]
Quote: If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. [Samuel Butler]