Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. – Samuel Butler
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. – Samuel Butler
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. – Samuel Butler
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950