Quotes by Butler, Samuel

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commo >>

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or ar >>

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. >>

Quotations about Debate

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debat >>

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer wh >>

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in c >>

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.

Butler, Samuel