Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. Alexander Smith More Quotes by Alexander Smith More Quotes From Alexander Smith Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. Alexander Smith time happiness life Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it. Alexander Smith lasts time Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile. Alexander Smith idlers vanity giving Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. Alexander Smith scales doe winter To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith portraits creation The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality. Alexander Smith personality men world Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all. Alexander Smith tangled karma hands In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. Alexander Smith bars care garden Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. Alexander Smith pulse glimpse happiness An old novel has a history of its own. Alexander Smith novel fiction I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. Alexander Smith lightning deeds men Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. Alexander Smith life-is desire men My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. Alexander Smith garden nature sweet God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. Alexander Smith grandeur infinite infinity Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over. Alexander Smith generosity heart world Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. Alexander Smith poverty desire men Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. Alexander Smith feathers chickens pride To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots. Alexander Smith sunshine perfection sweet Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics. Alexander Smith ninety-nine funeral nature We have two lives; Alexander Smith stars night life
