Samuel Butler quotes.

“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”

“A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.”

“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.”

“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.”

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”

“Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”

“Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.”

“All children are born pure nonsense, and remain so until they get to be writers”

“Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”

“Let every man be true and every god a liar.”

“Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”

“Words are clothes that thoughts wear”

“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”

“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”

“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“Life is one long process of getting tired.”

“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.”

“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”