It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. – 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
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. – Sydney Smith
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! – Sydney Smith
A world war – God forbid! – will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963