Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler Dew Copy Share Image
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and… — Samuel Butler Autumn Copy Share Image
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. — Samuel Butler Also Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. — Samuel Butler Die Copy Share Image
“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.” — Samuel Butler Marriage Copy Share Image
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. — Samuel Butler Christian Copy Share Image
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no… — Samuel Butler Mind Copy Share Image
There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as… — Samuel Butler Asks Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — Samuel Butler Adversity Copy Share Image
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. — Samuel Butler Decent Copy Share Image
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that… — Samuel Butler Benefits Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. — Samuel Butler Cases Copy Share Image
“It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.” — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right… — Samuel Butler Praise 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 Cold Copy Share Image
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Aphorism Copy Share Image
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character… — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground — Samuel Butler Ancestry Copy Share Image
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to… — Samuel Butler Atheism Copy Share Image
