Samuel Butler Good Quotations

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

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.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.