Alexander smith scottish poet
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
Alexander Smith
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
Alexander Smith
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
Alexander Smith
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
Alexander Smith
In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.
Alexander Smith
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith
The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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 to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Alexander Smith
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John 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
