Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, for which he may be best remembered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1865
CountryUnited States of America
Logan Pearsall Smith quotes about
mystical-experiences boredom bored
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
mirrors faces
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
weed flower ignorance
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.
income matter temperament
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
ivory-tower towers gutters
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
greed soul lust
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
moon echoes hair
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
friendship old-friends needs
We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
golden slot-machines pennies
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
trying
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.
almost american-critic bad conscience fragile morally throw
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
gone thank
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
fastidious few
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
both god soon
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.