Logan P. Smith
Logan P. Smith
ask life might
I might give my life for a friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel.
behave drink rich riches stay
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. 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.
face finds laugh till trying youth
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
cure fault forgive social
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
behave drink rich stay
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
anyone generally moral practice preach preaches
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
china hundred odd piece rare worth
If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty!
bond thinking walk
Shopping: I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't want
beautiful hideous houses people
There are people who are beautiful in dilapidation, like old houses that were hideous when new
enchanting hear people voices
What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say
ghosts glass image leaps lurks mention mirrors people phantom plate shadows talk
When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors
happiness joy lifelong nice polite reading subtle though
Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
losing soul
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul
apt gutter idealists ivory straight walk
When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter