Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

- Sydney Smith

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

- Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only r…

- Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

- Sydney Smith

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite poss…

- Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

- Sydney Smith

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or …

- Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

- Sydney Smith

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

- Sydney Smith