Alexander Smith

Death takes away the commonplace of life.

— Alexander Smith

The only thing a man knows is himself.

— Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world.

— Alexander Smith

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

— Alexander Smith

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

— Alexander Smith

A poem round and perfect as a star.

— Alexander Smith

To-day is always different from yesterday.

— Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

— Alexander Smith

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

— Alexander Smith

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

— Alexander Smith

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

— Alexander Smith

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

— Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

— Alexander Smith

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

— Alexander Smith

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

— Alexander Smith

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success…

— Alexander Smith

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He…

— Alexander Smith

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain…

— Alexander Smith

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

— Alexander Smith

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

— Alexander Smith

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it…

— Alexander Smith

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange…

— Alexander Smith

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns…

— Alexander Smith

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age… I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of…

— Alexander Smith

Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of…

— Alexander Smith

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have…

— Alexander Smith

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation…

— Alexander Smith

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs…

— Alexander Smith

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent…

— Alexander Smith

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity,…

— Alexander Smith

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees…

— Alexander Smith

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows…

— Alexander Smith

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

— Alexander Smith

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

— Alexander Smith

An old novel has a history of its own.

— Alexander Smith

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

— Alexander Smith

Trees are your best antiques

— Alexander Smith

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

— Alexander Smith

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest...

— Alexander Smith