Samuel Butler Quotes

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.