413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

History is a bucket of ashes.

Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.