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 SmithMen praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
Alexander SmithWe bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith