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