Alexander Smith - Books Quotes

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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Alexander Smith

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Alexander Smith

Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.

Alexander Smith