Alexander Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”

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

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

“Everything is sweetened by risk.”

“Books are a finer world within the world.”

“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.”

“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”

“We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”