Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, for which he may be best remembered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1865
CountryUnited States of America
razors sides meaning-of-life
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
artist devil making-money
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
talent mediocre best-sellers
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
heaven sun gone
Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.
years body chill
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
men sides aging
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
birthday adventure mind
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
soul growth quarrels
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
best-friend together growing
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
mystical-experiences boredom bored
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
funny witty liars
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
stars piano perfection
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
nature phrases pursuit
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
god money
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.