Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. – Alexander Smith
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. – Alexander Smith
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. – Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith
That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another’s labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public. – Lord Ellenborough, quoted in Bouvier’s Law Dictionary by John Bouvier, 8th