Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the... →
Joseph Butler
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular... →
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion... →
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.... →
Octavia Butler
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are... →
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people... →
Octavia E. Butler
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.