Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

Trees are your best antiques.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith
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
Alexander Smith

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