151 Quotes by Sydney Smith

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

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

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.