Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. – Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. – Samuel Butler
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler