There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total… — 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 people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying… — 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
