Samuel Butler: Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts. — Samuel Butler
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the p — Samuel Butler
Intellectual over-indulgence is the most gratuitous and disgraceful form which e — Samuel Butler
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. — Samuel Butler
I am sure that a humanity chaste would be infinitely superior. — Jules Renard
We boil at different degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plain as the nose on a man's face. — Miguel de Cervantes
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-min — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Prends garde, mon garçon, on en meurt. — Émile Zola
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heavens — Robert Louis Stevenson
Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling l — Al-Mutanabbi
Veritas odit moras. — Truth hates delays. Seneca the Younger