Alexander Smith - Grows Quotes

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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.

Alexander Smith

Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as a cocoon grows around the silkworm.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

Alexander Smith