Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night;… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
