More From Samuel Butler
- "The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
- "What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."
- "It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
More In Death
- "Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."― Jackie Kennedy
- "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."― Oscar Wilde
- "It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits."― Wendell Berry