Samuel Butler

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

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.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

We are prisoners of ideas.

I am stronger than my fear.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.