Samuel Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.”

“It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.”

“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.”

“Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?”

“Opinions have vested interests just as men have.”

“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”

“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.”

“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.”

“Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.”

“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”