Alexander Smith Quotes

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Alexander Smith

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 31, 1830

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world.

Alexander Smith

Trees are your best antiques.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith