Samuel Butler Quotes & Quotations

Samuel Butler Quotes

» Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

» 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.

» The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

» Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

» We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

» The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

» Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

» Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

» Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

» The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

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