If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
More Quotes by Alexander Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.