What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. -Samuel Butler Faith
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. -Samuel Butler Medical
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. -Samuel Butler Learning
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. -Samuel Butler Health
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 Humor
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -Samuel Butler Food
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 Marriage
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. -Samuel Butler Truth
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. -Samuel Butler Death
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? -Samuel Butler Marriage
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. -Samuel Butler Architecture
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. -Samuel Butler Death
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. -Samuel Butler Religion
