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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith

Sea

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

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

Alexander Smith

Injury

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Alexander Smith

Care

Fame

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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

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

Alexander Smith

Frankness

Books are a finer world within the world.

Alexander Smith

Books

World

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.