Samuel Butler Quotes

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Samuel Butler
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04 December, 1835
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18 June, 1902
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