Samuel Butler

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

- Samuel Butler

"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."

- Samuel Butler

"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

"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

- Samuel Butler

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

- Samuel Butler

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

- Samuel Butler

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

- Samuel Butler

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

- Samuel Butler

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

- Samuel Butler

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

- Samuel Butler