Author Profile
Alexander Smith
1830 – 1867 • Scottish • Poet
30
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 30 quotesThe 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.— Alexander Smith
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.— Alexander Smith
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.— Alexander Smith
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.— Alexander Smith
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.— Alexander Smith
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.— Alexander Smith
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.— Alexander Smith