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
enchanting hear voices
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
fastidious few
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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.
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.
remembrance tests enjoyment
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
carpe-diem people rich
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
razors sides meaning-of-life
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
gone thank
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
both god soon
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.