Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

- Samuel Butler

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

- Samuel Butler

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

- Samuel Butler

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

- Samuel Butler

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

- Samuel Butler

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

- Samuel Butler

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate…

- Samuel Butler

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

- Samuel Butler

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

- Samuel Butler