Alexander Smith: Quotes about the soul

Alexander Smith was Scottish poet and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

Alexander Smith: 28 quotes2 likes

“The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.”

Alexander Smith

Scene 12.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.”

Alexander Smith

Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

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

Alexander Smith

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).

“The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.”

Alexander Smith

Horton.