Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#creation #like #own #portrait #present

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#day #holds #time #together

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#dead #forgetfulness #grass #grows #like

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

— Alexander Smith

#man #plant #plants #posterity #tree

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

— Alexander Smith

#deeply #gardens #heart #how #human

A great man is the man who does something for the first time. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#first #first time #great #great man #man

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#day #fair #get #happens #praise

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#faith #god #loses #saddest #saddest thing

The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#sea #shores #thousand #upon

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#delight #discovery #love is #others #ourselves