The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel ButlerI am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.
Samuel ButlerUnion may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.
Samuel ButlerHappiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel ButlerAll animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerI have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
Samuel ButlerTags: confidence
I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a height from which they begin to decline, and when they have begun to decline it is a pity that they cannot be knocked on the head; for an art is like a living organism—better dead than dying.
Samuel ButlerTags: art
A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel ButlerMost people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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