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