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
art soul gallery
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
art movement vitality
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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.
art real writing
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
vocabulary sour grapes
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.
mind ethics perpetual
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
enchanting hear voices
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
both god soon
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
fastidious few
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
gone thank
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
almost american-critic bad conscience fragile morally throw
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
trying
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
behave stay suppose
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.
accept great greater man sound takes
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.