Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butlerwas an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use to this day...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 December 1835
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.