There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one… — 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
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. — 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
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — 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)
