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
Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
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.
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself