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. Alexander Smith More Quotes by Alexander Smith More Quotes From Alexander Smith A poem round and perfect as a star. Alexander Smith stars poetry perfect A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. Alexander Smith It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word. Alexander Smith Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. Alexander Smith plants he man plant tree A great man is the man who does something for the first time. Alexander Smith great-man great man time Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. Alexander Smith human human-life happiness life Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. Alexander Smith road personal man life