It is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

It is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler