Samuel Butler

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Logic is like the sword

How many are the things I can do without!

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.