Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. ”

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. ”

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. ”

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

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

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ”

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. ”

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ”

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. ”

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