Samuel Butler

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#marriage

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

— Samuel Butler

#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#apply #christ #church #cruelty #desertion

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #clothes #drunkard #eat #give

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#health #his #lose #man #money

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#be grateful #grateful #let us #mirror #only

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#according #been #between #expect #get

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#alter #cannot #god #historians #past

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conduct #divinity #healing #his #influencing

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #earth #last #ought #parents