Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler Instinct Copy Share Image
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire… — Samuel Butler Admire Copy Share Image
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler Faculty Copy Share Image
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,… — Samuel Butler Brain Copy Share Image
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it… — Samuel Butler Loyalty Copy Share Image
“Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.” — Samuel Butler Psychology Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst… — Samuel Butler Health Copy Share Image
“The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.… — Samuel Butler Reading Copy Share Image
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but… — Samuel Butler Done Copy Share Image
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does… — Samuel Butler Forget Copy Share Image
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. — Samuel Butler Benefit of the doubt Copy Share Image
Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both — Samuel Butler Demand Copy Share Image
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain:… — Samuel Butler Authority Copy Share Image
“No boy can resist being fed well by a good-natured and still handsome woman. Boys are very like nice dogs in this… — Samuel Butler Respect Copy Share Image
“There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler Bounds Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler Instinct Copy Share Image
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. — Samuel Butler Business Copy Share Image
