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
reflection self mirrors
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
mirrors faces
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
self mirrors people
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
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.
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.