A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service." — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
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