Quotes by Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.