Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. – Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – 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
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus