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
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. – Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler