1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler – [Fathers]
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Samuel Butler – [Wisdom]
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Samuel Butler – [Death and Dying]
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler – [Immortality]
To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler – [Life and Living]
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
Samuel Butler – [Alliances]
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
Samuel Butler – [Medicine]
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler – [Virtue]
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler – [Forgiveness]
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler – [Argument]
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
Samuel Butler – [Faith]
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 – [Amiability]
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.
Samuel Butler – [Water]
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler – [Words]
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler – [Work]
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler – [Faith]
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