Samuel Butler Trying Quotations

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.