Sydney Smith Quotes

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. - Sydney Smith

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

What you don't know would make a great book. - Sydney Smith

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? - Sydney Smith

We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. - Sydney Smith

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

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

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. - Sydney Smith

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