Horace Smith

“The road to ruin is kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”

“In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.”

“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”

“Fame, like a river, is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.”

“Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“I am great Ozymandias, saith the stone, 'The King of Kings.'”

“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”

“Good-humor is the clear, blue sky of the soul, in which every star of talent will shine.”

“To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy.”

“Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which you must not try to get rid of unless you are sure of killing it.”

“Riches are the pettiest and least worthy of all objects of human pursuit.”