The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
