Logan Pearsall Smith

“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”

“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”

“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”

“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave just as badly as the world will let them.”

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”

“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”

“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there were a danger of their coming true!”

“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

“Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.”

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.”

“When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.”

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

“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.”

“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.”

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”

“An improper mind is a perpetual feast.”

“Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.”

“Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”