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
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
Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so
People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.