Sydney Smith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• No furniture is so charming as books.

  Sydney Smith

  Book, Reading, Furniture

  Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

• Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

  Sydney Smith

  Book, Reading, Men

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.353, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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