Samuel Butler Quotes

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. ~ The Way of All Flesh by 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. ~ The Way of All Flesh by 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. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler