Samuel Butler Quotes

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it."

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."