Samuel Butler

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

“Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.”

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

“Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.”

“Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.”

“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.”

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.”

“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.”