Alexander Smith may refer to: (wikipedia)
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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.
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
