The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Samuel Butler Read Quote
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. Samuel Butler Read Quote
A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler Read Quote
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. Samuel Butler Read Quote
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. Samuel Butler Read Quote
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. Samuel Butler Read Quote
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler Read Quote
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Samuel Butler Read Quote
