Samuel Butler

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart’s Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes…

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.