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
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.
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things
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.
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.