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
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
The history of art is the history of revivals.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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.