Quotes By Logan Pearsall Smith

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.