Samuel Butler may refer to:
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c. ; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.