When a man does all he can though it Succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

George Washington (1732–1799) American military leader, Founding Father, US President (1789–1797)

Copybook (1748)

From Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation, #44, an update of Decency of Conversation Among Men by French Jesuits (1595) [tr. Hawkins (1640)].