Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Sydney Smith quote Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith quote As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
Sydney Smith quote A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!
Sydney Smith quote Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith quote When I take a gun in hand, the safest place for a pheasant is just opposite the muzzle.
Sydney Smith quote Biography
English clergyman and essayist 1771-1845
