| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Alexander Smith |
| | | Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over. | 1 |
| Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay. | 2 |
| Life is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. | 3 |
| Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable. | 4 |
| Our young men are terribly alike. | 5 |
| Some books are drenched sands, on which a great soul’s wealth lies in heaps, like a wrecked argosy. | 6 |
| The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. | 7 |
| The sea complains upon a thousand shores. | 8 |
| There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. | 9 |
| Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life. | 10 | | |
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