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

“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.

I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I dare say I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.