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
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 father is a new lease of life.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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 lost.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.