The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it… — Alexander Smith Coins 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music.… — Alexander Smith Airy 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 He man 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 Desire Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Can not Copy Share Image
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. — Alexander Smith Admirable Copy Share Image
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. — Alexander Smith Disappear 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 Deeds Copy Share Image
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever… — Alexander Smith Action Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. — Alexander Smith Characteristics Copy Share Image
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is… — Alexander Smith Character Copy Share Image
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward… — Alexander Smith Accepting Copy Share Image
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith Frankness Copy Share Image
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others. — Alexander Smith Good luck Copy Share Image
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At… — Alexander Smith Barren Copy Share Image
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. — Alexander Smith Memory Copy Share Image
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. — Alexander Smith Happiness Copy Share Image
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. — Alexander Smith Complexity Copy Share Image
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy. — Alexander Smith Book Copy Share Image
Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. — Alexander Smith Broads Copy Share Image
Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature. — Alexander Smith Books Copy Share Image
