A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. — Alexander Smith Dropping 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 Character Copy Share Image
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of… — Alexander Smith Funeral Copy Share Image
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together. — Alexander Smith Brooches Copy Share Image
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain… — Alexander Smith Commendable Copy Share Image
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of… — Alexander Smith Alluring Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future… — Alexander Smith Barren Copy Share Image
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when… — Alexander Smith Chickens Copy Share Image
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. — Alexander Smith Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers,… — Alexander Smith Art Copy Share Image
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally… — Alexander Smith Care Copy Share Image
To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity,… — Alexander Smith Amount Copy Share Image
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity. — Alexander Smith Doe Copy Share Image
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be… — Alexander Smith Care Copy Share Image
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman. — Alexander Smith Faith in god Copy Share Image
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the… — Alexander Smith Black Copy Share Image
