Alexander Smith - Soul Quotes

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The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Alexander Smith

The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

Alexander Smith

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

Alexander Smith