Quotes by Alexander Smith

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Trees are your best antiques.

Alexander Smith

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.

Alexander Smith

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Alexander Smith
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Alexander Smith

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Alexander Smith

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Alexander Smith

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.

Alexander Smith

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Alexander Smith

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Alexander Smith

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world.

Alexander Smith

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Alexander Smith