Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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