Inspirational Quotations by Sydney Smith

  • Whatever you are from nature, keep to it;
    never desert your own line of talent.
    Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
    be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    From Issue 239
  • Men, whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
    From Issue 401
  • Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
    From Issue 411
  • Men, whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
    From Issue 418

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