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
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself
Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.
Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.