10 thought-provoking samuel butler quotes
- Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
- All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
- Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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