Alexander Smith Book Quotations

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

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.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

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

Books are a finer world within the world.