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. ”

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

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ”

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. ”

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

A great man is the man who does something for the first time. ”

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ”

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. ”