Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.


Sparks - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) - Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy


Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all...

Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all...

Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all...

Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all...