Quotes by Butler, Samuel

Life is one long process of getting tired. >>

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has depar >>

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. >>

Quotations about Virtue

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome >>

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous >>

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not su >>

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Butler, Samuel