Logic is like the sword – Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

Logic is like the sword – Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – 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
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon