Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. – Sydney Smith
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick