Alexander Smith Quotes

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

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

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

Alexander Smith