Samuel Butler

The money men make lives after them.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

A hen is only a egg’s way of making another egg.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

We are wiser than we know.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.