Sydney Smith quotes

" It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. " # Perseverance

" A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. " # Courage

" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

" Live always in the best company when you read. " # Books - Reading # Company # Life and Living

" Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. " # Talent

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

" It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. " # Faith

" 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. " # Self-love # Talent # Success

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

" His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. " # Silence # Conversation # Friends and Friendship