Alexander Smith > Quotes

“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”
― Alexander Smith

“Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.”
― Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp

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

“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”
― Alexander Smith

“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.”
― Alexander Smith

“Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor.”
― Alexander Smith

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

“Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.”
― Alexander Smith

“A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
― Alexander Smith

“Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.”
― Alexander Smith

“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.”
― Alexander Smith

“Books are a finer world within our world.”
― Alexander Smith

“A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
― Alexander Smith

“I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me.”
― Alexander Smith

“If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.”
― Alexander Smith

“A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
― Alexander Smith