Samuel Butler

All truth is not to be told at all times.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

I’m only ever in two places – with you or on the way.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

She doesn’t let me have control anymore. I must’ve crossed a line, I must’ve lost my mind.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Trust. Above all, I ask for trust. You won’t know every thought that crosses my mind, but just know that they’re all for us.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Real love is freedom, and this is what you’ve been given by the Creator – the freedom to love and to choose your own path.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past. It is the day-in and out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else is there, it isn’t enough.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Don’t ever let anyone keep your heart on a shelf just to take it down whenever it is convenient for them to feel.