136 Quotes by Alexander Smith

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.

The dining hall is the best place to meet people. I know it's hard to do.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

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.

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