We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel ButlerJustice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel ButlerIf [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.
Samuel Butler