Logan P. Smith Quotes (37 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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