Samuel Butler Character Quotations

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.