Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

#bodily #faculty #goodness #men #mental

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#current #custom #feeling #morality #peers

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dreams #good #more #mr #prayer

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #cases #common #her #jurisdiction

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#nobody #santa #santa claus #shoots

Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#just #men #opinions #vested #vested interests

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#company #doing #enjoy #good #good company

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christian religion #doubted #equally #general #hearing

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cold #continual #fear #lest #love