Quotes by Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
