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RESISTANCE TO RIDICULE

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 17.

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RESISTANCE TO RIDICULE.

By Sidney Smith

Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the peril of ridicule. You can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
If you think it right to differ from the times, to make a point of morals, do it, however rustic, however pedantic it may appear; do it, not for insolence, but seriously and grandly—as a man who wore a soul of his own in his bosom, and did not wait till it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion.—Sidney Smith.