136 Quotes by Alexander Smith

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.

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

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

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life