Samuel Butler

“He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.”

“Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.”

“And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, ye are like to reap.”

“For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring?”

“What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.”

“For rhetoric, he could not ope his mouth, but out there flew a trope.”

“The greatest saints and sinners have been made out of the same clay.”

“There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.”

“As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got th' advowson of his conscience.”

“He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.”

“Doubt is the key of knowledge.”

“For truth is precious and divine— Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”

“For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.”

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

“The chiefest art of government is to convert vices into virtues.”

“All the business of the world is but diversion, and all the happiness in it that is vain and false.”

“For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale.”