Alexander Smith Quotes

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

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

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

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.

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

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

How beautiful the yesterday that stoodOver me like a rainbow! I am alone,The past is past. I see the future stretchAll dark and barren as a rainy sea.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.