
Variant translation: If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 361.
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17
Variant translation: If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 361.
"The Holy Dimension", p. 341
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 88, Epilogue
“I loved to consider the care of God's Providence which extends even to the little fishes.”
Third Journal of Travel (1844-1845)
Context: Every evening at the same hour when the weather was calm, I used to go on deck and bless God for all the wonders of His creation. I loved to consider the care of God's Providence which extends even to the little fishes.
“When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Journal, pp. 27-28
A Man's Style
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books