There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. - Alexander Smith
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together. - Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Trees are your best antiques - Alexander Smith
Trees are your best antiques
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker. - Alexander Smith
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. - Alexander Smith
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - Alexander Smith
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red… - Alexander Smith
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red…
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasur… - Alexander Smith
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasur…
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