Samuel Butler Great Quotations

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

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.