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
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.
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.
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.
aim mankind wisest
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.
bosom mere seem slightest
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
friends dream giving-up
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
blood hygiene people
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.