Alexander Smith Quotes
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Books are a finer world within the world.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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Trees are your best antiques.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.