Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith