Quotes By Logan P. Smith

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The newest books are those that never grow old.

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

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

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

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

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

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