Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney SmithAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithWhen you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney SmithLucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
Sydney Smith