The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler
A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – 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
Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler