Alexander Smith Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

[Memory is] a man's real possession ... In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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

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