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
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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.
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
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
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places
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.