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
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground
Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair
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.
People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.