Sydney Smith

“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”

“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”

“A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.”

“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.”

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

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ”

“People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination”

“The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

“The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.”

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

“Take short views,Hope for the best,and Trust in God.”

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

“I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.”

“Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. ”

“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”

“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“Jika anda membuat seseorang bahagia hari ini,Anda juga membuat dia berbahagia dua puluh tahun lagi, saat ia mengenang peristiwa itu.”

“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”

“No furniture is so charming as books.”

“we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today”