All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.

— Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

— Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

— Samuel Butler

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

— Samuel Butler

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

— Samuel Butler

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

— Samuel Butler