Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903 in an altered version, and later published as he wrote it in 1964.Wisdom & Quotes
- An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a food of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
- An honest God's the noblest work of man.
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.
- It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Charles Synge Bowen