Samuel Butler

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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