Quotes from Horace Smith

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

Titles of Books. — Decoys to catch purchasers.

History is the shadow of time; life its substance, and they bear the same relation to one another, that the dim twilight does to the up-risen and visible sun. It is in vain to talk to men of throwing their minds into the past, or into the future, you may as well bid them leap out of themselves, or beyond their shadow. The present is all in all to us.

Pessimists — Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

A woman's counsel is not worth much, but he that despises it is no wiser than he should be

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.