Sydney Smith Quotes

There is not the least use in preaching to anyone, unless you chance to catch them ill. - Sydney Smith

The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. - Sydney Smith

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. - Sydney Smith

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. - Sydney Smith

The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool. - Sydney Smith

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping. - Sydney Smith

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

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. - Sydney Smith

Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today. - Sydney Smith

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