Quotes By Logan P. Smith

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

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

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

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.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

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

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

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

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

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.