Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – 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
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. – Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – 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. – 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
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. – Samuel Butler
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – 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
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. – Samuel Butler
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. – Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler
The history of art is the history of revivals. – Samuel Butler
