He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. — Samuel Butler Birthright Copy Share Image
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. — Samuel Butler Gossip Copy Share Image
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. — Samuel Butler Conscience Copy Share Image
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler 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
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without. — Samuel Butler Evolution Copy Share Image
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler Bounds Copy Share Image
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass… — Samuel Butler Credulous Copy Share Image
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his… — Samuel Butler Dream 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 Copy Share Image
“Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you… — Samuel Butler Happiness Copy Share Image
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins,… — Samuel Butler Comedy Copy Share Image
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler Irish Copy Share Image
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Can anyone do much for anyone else unless by making a will in his favour and dying then and there? Should not… — 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… — Samuel Butler Consistency Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-- delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but… — Samuel Butler Autumn Copy Share Image
“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category… — Samuel Butler Young ladies Copy Share Image
“All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves… — Samuel Butler 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 Copy Share Image
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler Biology Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. — Samuel Butler Devil Copy Share Image
