Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.