Samuel Butler

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by…

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of…

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children…

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side…

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called…

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat…

God cannot alter the past, though historians can…

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy…

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely…

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that…

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises…

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons…

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it…

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself…

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness…