Alexander Smith Quotes (39 Quotes)

Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

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

Books are a finer world within the world.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Love the fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays, The churlish thistles, scented briers, The wind-swept bluebells on the sunny braes, Down to the central fires, Exist alike in Love. Love is a sea Filling all the abysses dim Of lornest space, in whose de.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

The dining hall is the best place to meet people. I know it's hard to do.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voi

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

It is no of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

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

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

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

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

In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.

Each time we love, We turn nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

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

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Trees are your best antiques.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.