Alexander Smith World Quotations

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

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.