If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against…

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription....

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription....

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to...

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to...

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.