Quote by Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

• Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

• You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

• He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

• To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

• Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.