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Sydney Smith
Have the courage...
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of...
He not only...
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Source: In Webster's...
Oh, don't tell...
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except...
In composing, as...
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor...
I never read...
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Source: In The...