“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of… — Samuel Butler Children Copy Share Image
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is,… — Samuel Butler Casts Copy Share Image
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper… — Samuel Butler Cheaper Copy Share Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, The learned hold, are animals; So horses they affirm to be Mere engines made by… — Samuel Butler Science Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
“Union may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.” — Samuel Butler Strength Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler Ancient 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 Betting Copy Share Image
“Everything matters more than we think it does, adn, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does.… — Samuel Butler Time 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 Easy Copy Share Image
You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself… — Samuel Butler Existence Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as… — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” — Samuel Butler Book 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 Able Copy Share Image
“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.” — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of… — Samuel Butler Divinity Copy Share Image
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not… — Samuel Butler Christianity 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 Deny Copy Share Image
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously — Samuel Butler Conviction Copy Share Image
