Logan P. Smith Quotes

» The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

» People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

» There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

» To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

» Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

» If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

» How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

» Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

» It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

» Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

» The newest books are those that never grow old.

» It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

» It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

» The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

» Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

» People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

» There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

» What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.

» What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

» Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

» Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

» What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

» We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

» All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

» What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

» The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

» There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

» The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

» Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

» Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

» When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

» If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

» A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

» Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

» A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

» Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

» A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

» What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

» There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

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