Horace Smith
Horace Smith
HoraceSmithwas an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 December 1779
advice events forget good injuries man
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once
begins charity ends mostly
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins