Alexander Smith Quote

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.


Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country (ed. 1863)


The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and,...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and,...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and,...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and,...