Horace Smith

Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music of language.

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

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

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Every man, like narcissus, becomes enamored of the reflection of himself, only choosing a substance instead of a shadow. This love for any particular woman is self-love at second hand, vanity reflected, compound egotism.