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
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
History is a bucket of ashes.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
The course of true anything never does run smooth.