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. Sydney Smith Read Quote
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. Sydney Smith Read Quote
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. Sydney Smith Read Quote
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith Read Quote
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. Sydney Smith Read Quote
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith Read Quote
