Samuel Butler Quotes

While to deny the existence of an unseen kingdom is bad, to pretend that we know more about it than its bare existence is no better. - Samuel Butler

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. - Samuel Butler

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. - Samuel Butler

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. - Samuel Butler

When I was there I found their jokes, like their roads - very long and not very good, leading to a little tin point of a spire which has been remorselessly obvious for miles without seeming to get any nearer. - Samuel Butler

When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why. - Samuel Butler

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. - Samuel Butler

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year. - Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. - Samuel Butler

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