About Sydney Smith: Sydney Smith was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric.
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
