Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate. — Samuel Butler Destiny Copy Share Image
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our… — Samuel Butler Convention Copy Share Image
“I tell you, Edward, said my father with some severity, we must judge men not so much by what they do, as… — Samuel Butler Life Copy Share Image
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown… — Samuel Butler Controversy Copy Share Image
“For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler Beauty Copy Share Image
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. — Samuel Butler Better Copy Share Image
“The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.” — Samuel Butler Lies Copy Share Image
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If… — Samuel Butler Bottom Copy Share Image
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. — Samuel Butler Common Copy Share Image
Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods — Samuel Butler Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you… — Samuel Butler Happiness Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. — Samuel Butler Appreciation Copy Share Image
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with… — Samuel Butler Language Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Architecture Copy Share Image
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how… — Samuel Butler Long Copy Share Image
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler Adultery Copy Share Image
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. — Samuel Butler Conscience Copy Share Image
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Equations Copy Share Image
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler Able Copy Share Image
“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make… — Samuel Butler Forgiveness Copy Share Image
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