“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is t...” — Samuel Butler Quote

“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”

“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”

“Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.”

“If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.”

“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”

“Free trade was once a Republican conviction.”