If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents? — 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
