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
life birthday success
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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.
chance daily-life whimsical
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
marriage people life-and-death
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
life happiness success
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
inspirational life beauty
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
funny life witty
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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.