Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed. – Samuel Butler
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler