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Samuel Butler (novelist)10 quotes
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is! — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy-very unhappy-it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness. — Samuel Butler (novelist) · 1902All 10 quotes →