Quotes By Logan P. Smith
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Logan P. Smith
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Logan P. Smith
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan P. Smith
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Logan P. Smith
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith
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.
Logan P. Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan P. Smith
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.
Logan P. Smith
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.
Logan P. Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan P. Smith
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?
Logan P. Smith
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith
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.
Logan P. Smith