Sydney SmithThinkers

An Argument is best answered, when bad, by letting it go on.

Charity is a principle of prevailing love to God and good will to men which effectually inclines one endued with it to glorify God and to do good to others.

Childhood is a series of happy delusions.

Correspondence is impossible to keep them up.

The Countryside is a kind of healthy grave.

Economy is often the absence of all taste and comfort.

The Fact nothing is so fallacious as, except figures.

The Home is capable of becoming a great source of happiness, ranking immediately after health and a good conscience.

Marriage is like a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated... often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

The Minority is almost always in the right. As such, it would be an entertaining change in human affairs to determine everything by them.

A Minority is almost always in the right.