Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – 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
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler