Inspirational Quotations by Samuel Butler

  • You can do very little with faith,
    but you can do nothing without it.
    From Issue 15
  • Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures
    or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
    From Issue 257
  • To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
    From Issue 304
  • Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
    Topic: Friendship
    From Issue 340
  • People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
    From Issue 344
  • One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
    From Issue 381
  • Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.
    From Issue 396

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