Best Samuel Butler Lines
- The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. Athanasian
- The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. Bounds
- The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. Death
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. Author
- The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. Art
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. All
- There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. Epitomized
- There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. Evil
- Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are… Admire
- Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his… Any
- What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. All
- When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will… Asks
- Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. Besetting
- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,… Absurd
- Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to… Band
- Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are… Bad
- To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is… All
- Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable… Allow
- Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Able
- Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. Book
- Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Funny
- [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. Anyone
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds All
- Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. Children
- Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. Actual
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