Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
Alexander Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Wealth
Books
Lying
Soul
Book
Drench
Heaps
Great
Wrecked
Like
Lies
More quotes by Alexander Smith
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Alexander Smith
In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
Alexander Smith
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
Alexander Smith
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
Alexander Smith
Trees are your best antiques
Alexander Smith
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
Alexander Smith
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
Alexander Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.
Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
Alexander Smith
Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
Alexander Smith
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Alexander Smith
