Quotes by Joseph Butler

“Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.”

“Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them.”

“If people would observe the obvious occasions of silence; if they would subdue the inclination to tale-bearing, and that eager desire to engage attention, which is an original disease in some minds; they would be in little danger of offending with their tongue, and would, in a moral and religious sense, have due government over it.”