Samuel Butler, (1612-1680), British Poet, Satirist Quotes
Our self-conceit sustains, and always must sustain us.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human on Sunday.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity in this world -- is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Logic and consistency are luxuries for the gods and the lower animals.
The gods are those who either have money or do not want it.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation.
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Let us be grateful to the
mirror for revealing to
us our appearance only.