[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
– Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
– Alexander Smith
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
– Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
– Alexander Smith
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.
– Alexander Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
– Alexander Smith
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
– Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.