Samuel Butler

“The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.”

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”

“Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.”

“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”

“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.”