3 December 2020 Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
