Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Samuel Butler More Quotes by Samuel Butler More Quotes From Samuel Butler If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. Samuel Butler atheist waiting people Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. Samuel Butler All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler ... 'Tis better to have loved and lost ... Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Samuel Butler All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Samuel Butler Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. Samuel Butler God cannot alter the past, but historians can. Samuel Butler God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is Samuel Butler He that is down can fall no lower. Samuel Butler I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. Samuel Butler I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. Samuel Butler It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. Samuel Butler It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. Samuel Butler Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. Samuel Butler
