Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all…

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to…

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a…

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor…

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the…

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be…

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our…

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal…

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as…

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to…

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription…

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more…

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both…

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep…

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing…