Samuel Butler: Many, if not most, good ideas die young — mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondne

Many, if not most, good ideas die young — mainly from neglect on the part of the — Samuel Butler

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.

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Time is the only true purgatory. — Samuel Butler
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the — Samuel Butler
How is it, I wonder, that all religious officials, from God the Father to the pa — Samuel Butler
It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, t — Samuel Butler
Man sagt: „Studire, Künstler, die Natur!” Es ist aber keine Kleinigkeit, aus dem — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always read — Napoleon
Но, я думаю, кто испытал наслаждение творчества, для того уже все другие наслажд — Anton Chekhov
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its d — Friedrich Schiller
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! — George Eliot
The penguin with the tips of its wings in its waistcoat pocket. — Jules Renard
All those were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. — Marcus Aurelius
For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, — George Stillman Hillard