To love God is to have good health, good looks, good sense, experience, a kindly nature and a fair balance of cash in hand. - Samuel Butler

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it.

“Silence,” it has been said by one writer, “is a virtue which renders us agreeable to our fellow-creatures.”

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot understand the animals' and plants' business, we have therefore denied that it can understand anything whatever.