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
vocabulary sour grapes
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.
soul dew should
We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.
views quality adjectives
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
names suits facts
The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
inspirational teenage laughing
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
god money
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
stars piano perfection
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
happiness wine vintage
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
funny witty liars
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
mystical-experiences boredom bored
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
best-friend together growing
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
soul growth quarrels
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
birthday adventure mind
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
years body chill
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.