James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Alexander Smith

Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over.

Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay.

Life is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable.

Our young men are terribly alike.

Some books are drenched sands, on which a great soul’s wealth lies in heaps, like a wrecked argosy.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

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

Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life.