Barren Quote by Alexander Smith

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

— Alexander Smith

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

— Alexander Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Alexander Smith

In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

— Alexander Smith

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

— Alexander Smith