Top 30 Quotes by Alexander Smith

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

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.

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

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

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

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

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