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
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.
Alexander Smith
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Alexander Smith
Trees are your best antiques.
Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
Alexander Smith
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
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