• Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

    Alexander Smith: Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144