Quotes by : Alexander Smith

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes....

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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

Everything is sweetened by risk.

A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

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

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.