Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.