Alexander Smith Quotes

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith

"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
-Alexander Smith in Forgiveness quotes.

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
-Alexander Smith in Memory quotes.

"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."
-Alexander Smith in History quotes.

"Trees are your best antiques."
-Alexander Smith in Nature quotes.

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
-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 to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it."
-Alexander Smith in Pleasure quotes.

"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."
-Alexander Smith in Quotations quotes.

"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
-Alexander Smith