1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Books: Bestsellers]
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Affection]
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.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Education]
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Charm]
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Youth]
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Youth]
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Happiness]
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Fashion]
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Gossip]
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Bigotry]
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Dreams]
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Friends and Friendship]
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Leisure]
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Lies and Lying]
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Soul]
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Evil]
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Books and Reading]
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Night]
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Preachers and Preaching]
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith – [Youth]