Samuel Butler

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God…

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should…

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money…

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting…

Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it…

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams…

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money…

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no…

The history of art is the history of revivals…

Let every man be true and every god a liar…

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also…

All truth is not to be told at all times…

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but…

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad…

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil…