Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Boys and young men are violent in their affections, but they are seldom very constant;” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever… — 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
