Alexander Smith quotes

" Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. " # Love

" A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. " # Memory # Money # Riches

" Everything is sweetened by risk. " # Risk

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

" A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. " # Ideals and Idealism # Mercy # Love

" Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. " # Desire # Life and Living # Age and Aging

" 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. " # Egotism # Character # Age and Aging

" We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander. " # Libraries # Laughter # History and Historians

" The sea complains upon a thousand shores. " # Oceans # Complaints and Complaining # Death and Dying