Sydney Smith Quote

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.


Letter to Catherine Crowe, January 31, 1841.


Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.