Alexander Smith Quotes
Most popular Alexander Smith Quotes
Everything is sweetened by risk.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as a cocoon grows around the silkworm.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage — in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
