No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.
Reverend Sydney SmithMadam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Reverend Sydney SmithTags: friendship food gravy
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.
Reverend Sydney SmithTags: writing pleasure novels craft enjoyment
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Reverend Sydney SmithTags: music
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Reverend Sydney SmithTake short views,
Hope for the best,
and Trust in God.
The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Reverend Sydney SmithTags: courage determination action initiative
People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
Reverend Sydney SmithTags: love
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