Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names,… — 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
