British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
FaithYouNothingWithoutLittle
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
FaithKindSpeculationBetBetting
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
IdeasTryingBadPassLikeMost
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
LivePeopleReachCommon SenseSense
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
DieDyingLeaveOffOnceThing
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
HistoryDeathOpinionWorldWeakness
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
MenGoodnessTryMoreMentalThan
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
JusticeDoingInjusticeWhatever
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
WomenStandOwnWeaponsBeating
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
FindDutyDifficultHardOutSeldom
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SuccessDeathDieMy OwnBoredOwn
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
VirtueWithinViceKeepFunction
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