Samuel Butler

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dying #leave #off #once #thing

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#empire #give #happy #make #pain

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#decent #die #him #left #legacy

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#except #own #stand #their #weapons

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#little #nothing #very #without #you

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#culture #cultured #enough #first #hand

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#commoner #durable #gold #like #more

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#home #nonsense #others #philosophies #ride

All truth is not to be told at all times. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#told #truth #truth is

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#god #gods #past