Alexander Smith

A man__ real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

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

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

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

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

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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

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

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

Everything is sweetened by risk.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

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

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

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

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