Quote #27
Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
More from Sydney Smith
- Praise is the best diet for us, after all.
- Live always in the best company when you read.
- As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen.
- Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
- My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
- He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.
- Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
- Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing an…