Alexander Smith Quotes

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

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

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

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.