What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?Sydney Smith
Food and Eating
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today. Sydney Smith
Glory
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,—nothing so expensive as glory.Sydney Smith
Happiness
Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.Sydney Smith: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
Mathematics
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?Sydney Smith
Praise and Flattery
Praise is the best diet for us, after all.Sydney Smith
Praise and Flattery
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.Sydney Smith: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
