Samuel Butler And Quotations

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.