Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

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

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

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

We think as we do, mainly because other people think so

We think as we do, mainly because other people think so

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be...

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be...

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

To be at all is to be religious more or less

To be at all is to be religious more or less

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams...

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams...

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

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

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.