413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

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

The course of true anything never does run smooth.