To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but… — Samuel Butler Fall season Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the… — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler Gold Copy Share Image
“I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent… — Samuel Butler Parenting Copy Share Image
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow… — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. — Samuel Butler Clear Copy Share Image
“certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. It is their children of the first, or first and… — Samuel Butler Success Copy Share Image
“Can anyone do much for anyone else unless by making a will in his favour and dying then and there? Should not… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler Divine Copy Share Image
“tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while… — Samuel Butler Business Copy Share Image
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler Able Copy Share Image
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler Approach Copy Share Image
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their… — Samuel Butler Children Copy Share Image
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler History Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Absolutes Copy Share Image
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. — Samuel Butler Genius Copy Share Image
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. — Samuel Butler Conservative Copy Share Image
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to… — Samuel Butler Difficult Copy Share Image
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the… — Samuel Butler Berries Copy Share Image
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler Faith Copy Share Image
