136 Quotes by Alexander Smith

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

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

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

An old novel has a history of its own.

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

It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word.

Dreams are the most curious asides and soliloquies of the soul. When a man recollects his dream, it is like meeting the ghost of himself. Dreams often surprise us into the strangest self-knowledge. Dreaming is the truest confessional, and often the sharpest penance.

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

In life, there is nothing more 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.