Logan P. Smith
Logan P. Smith
apt gutter idealists ivory straight walk
When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter
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!
dares hardly man men whom woman
There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them
alone consists gives life meaning pounding pursuit star though
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star
losing soul
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul
ask life might
I might give my life for a friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel.
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.
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.
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.
enchanting hear people voices
What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say
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.
fastidious few matters minds words
There is one thing that matters / to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
american-critic fastidious few matters minds words
There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.