What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted. – Donald Cram