Alexander Smith Quotes
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible ...
Show MoreEverything is sweetened by risk.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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 likings.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
