Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney SmithHeat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Sydney SmithIn composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney SmithOh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Sydney Smith