“Boys and young men are violent in their affections, but they are seldom very constant;” — Samuel Butler Love Copy Share Image
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. — Samuel Butler Christian Copy Share Image
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler Amiable Copy Share Image
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.” — Samuel Butler Poetry Copy Share Image
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Bored Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Book Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the… — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. — Samuel Butler Alcoholism Copy Share Image
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that… — Samuel Butler Blind Copy Share Image
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler Approach Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Architecture Copy Share Image
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character… — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in… — Samuel Butler Life Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and… — Samuel Butler Consistency Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-- delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but… — Samuel Butler Autumn Copy Share Image
“Everything matters more than we think it does, adn, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does.… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category… — Samuel Butler Young ladies Copy Share Image
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. — Samuel Butler Birthright Copy Share Image
