Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. – Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler