Quotes from butler samuel ii

The most perfect humour and irony is generally quite unconscious.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

Very useless things we neglect, till they become old and useless enough to be put in Museums: and so very important things we study till, when they become important enough, we ignore them -- and rightly.

Many, if not most, good ideas die young -- mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. Once well started, an opinion had better be left to shift for itself.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all.

Entertaining angels unawares: It is always we who are to entertain the angels, and never they us. I cannot, however, think that an angel would be a very entertaining person, either as guest or host.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

He who would propagate an opinion must begin by making sure of his ground and holding it firmly. There is as little use in trying to breed from weak opinion as from other weak stock.