Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Sydney SmithWhen you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney SmithHuman beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Sydney Smith[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.
Sydney Smith