413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.