Alexander Smith Quotes
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.