Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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

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

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

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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

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

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

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

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.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.