Sydney Smith

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.