Sydney Smith
17 quotations
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Live always in the best company when you read.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.