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
greed soul lust
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
art soul gallery
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
soul growth quarrels
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
wind forever soul
What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.
soul dew should
We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.
time soul looks
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
funny people soul
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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.