I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Sydney Smith

What you don't know would make a great book.
Sydney Smith

Live always in the best company when you read.
Sydney Smith

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
Sydney Smith

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

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Sydney Smith