Samuel Butler

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#done #easy #forgive #least #like

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #interest #money #much #never

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

— Samuel Butler

#bet #betting #faith #i #kind

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#asks #doubt #guide #hence #him

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#idleness #men #sin #some #some men

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

— Samuel Butler

#doing #doing good #evil #good #may

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

— Samuel Butler

#aims #enjoy #learned #main #most

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

— Samuel Butler

#best #go #liar #longest #lying

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

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

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

— Samuel Butler

#another #egg #hen #making #only