"Life is not an exact science, it is an art" — Samuel Butler

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Samuel Butler Quote