Alexander Smith

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

“The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.”

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

“Everything is sweetened by risk.”

“In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.”

“I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.”

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.”

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

“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”