Alexander Smith Quotes & Sayings

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

“I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.”

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

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

“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.”

“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

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

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

“We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”

“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.”