When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler