Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic English author of a variety of works. Two of his most famous works are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.