In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Quote by Alexander Smith

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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Trees are your best antiques

Trees are your best antiques

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

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

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

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

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

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's...

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's...

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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

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

Trees are your best antiques.

Trees are your best antiques.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

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

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

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

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

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

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.