We have two lives; Alexander Smith More Quotes by Alexander Smith More Quotes From 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. Alexander Smith race men death There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve. Alexander Smith doe time world There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Alexander Smith injury difficult ghost Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. Alexander Smith coffins melancholy reputation 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. Alexander Smith pudding taste reality In winter, when the dismal rain Alexander Smith rain winter wind In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. Alexander Smith garden night book The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid. Alexander Smith wine hair morning To-day is always different from yesterday. Alexander Smith different yesterday A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker. Alexander Smith insight may window In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October. Alexander Smith autumn circles years A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. Alexander Smith sadness soul twilight It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice. Alexander Smith success-and-failure failure justice Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural. Alexander Smith library night book My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. Alexander Smith suits perfect friendship A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. Alexander Smith tower-of-babel towers history Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May. Alexander Smith hem tears sweet 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. Alexander Smith departure tomorrow today If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. Alexander Smith strong race character The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. Alexander Smith flipping-a-coin life-and-love needs
