The 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
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. – Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. – Alexander Smith
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they – and as taciturn. – Alexander Smith
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. – Alexander Smith