Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler