The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. – Samuel Butler
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted. – Samuel Butler
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler
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. – Samuel Butler
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. – Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. – Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. – Samuel Butler
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. – Samuel Butler
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. – Samuel Butler
A lawyer’s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. – Samuel Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. – Samuel Butler