Alexander Smith Quotations | Page 2

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Trees are your best antiques

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

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.

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

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.