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Quotes by Sir Humphry Davy

2 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.— filed under Faith In God

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.— filed under Kindness