Samuel Butler Quotes

“The dead should be judged as we judge criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of a doubt.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:death doubt judgement

“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

topic:death reason living

“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting nor remembering death unduly. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and the less we think about it the better.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:death forgetting

“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:death

“Every man’s work . . . is always a portrait of himself”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

topic:self work

“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:power faith

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:friendship man

“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, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:friendship memory forgetting

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:words language

“It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:nature

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