136 Quotes by Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Every man’s road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

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

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

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo – from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

A man can bear a world’s contempt when he has that within which says he’s worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

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...

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.