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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.
Samuel Butler
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel Butler
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.
Samuel Butler
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Samuel Butler
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
Samuel Butler
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Samuel Butler
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
Samuel Butler
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler
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