Sydney Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”

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

“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.”

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

“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”

“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”

“Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.”

“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.”

“Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.”

“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.”