Quotes By Sydney Smith

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

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

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

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

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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

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.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.