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.”

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

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.”

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

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