Samuel Butler Should Quotations

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

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

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.