136 Quotes by Alexander Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.