58 Quotations by Sydney Smith
- 41. No furniture is so charming as books.

- 42. No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

- 43. No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

- 44. Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious ...

- 45. Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

- 46. Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

- 47. Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.

- 48. That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

- 49. The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ...

- 50. The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t ...

- 51. There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, ...

- 52. To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and shrinking of the cold ...

- 53. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

- 54. What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

- 55. What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

- 56. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo ...

- 57. Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten ...

- 58. You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessaril ...

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