Logan P. Smith Quotes

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

The newest books are those that never grow old... view

By: Logan P. Smith

The old know what they want.. view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail... view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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... view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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... view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?.. view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in... view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out.. view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations.. view

By: Logan P. Smith

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?.. view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them... view

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... view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend... view

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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

By: Logan P. Smith

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... view

By: Logan P. Smith

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste... view

By: Logan P. Smith