The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as...

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as...

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the...

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the...

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

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...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

I am; therefore, I think.

I am; therefore, I think.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil....

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil....

To be at all is to be religious more or less

To be at all is to be religious more or less

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

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest...

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest...

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks...

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks...