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• He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith
• He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
  -- Sydney Smith...
• To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 265...
• Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 130...
• Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 258...
• Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...
• We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol.
  i, p. 23...