The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. – Alexander Smith
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. – Alexander Smith
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. – Alexander Smith
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. – Alexander Smith
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith
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
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence. – Henry Fuseli