I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler 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 he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
![“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward…” quote by Samuel Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cad/samuel-butler-823_bottom_if-science-tends-to-thicken-the-crust-of_1086221.jpg)
