Horace Smith

Language, which is the uniting bond and very medium of communion between men, is at the same time by the great variety of tongues, the means of severing and estranging nations more than anything else.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

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

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

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

Popularity is like the brightness of a falling star, the fleeting splendor of a rainbow, the bubble that is sure to burst by its very inflation.