How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! Logan Pearsall Smith More Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith More Quotes From Logan Pearsall Smith Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. Logan Pearsall Smith evil people thinking There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder. Logan Pearsall Smith delicious people thinking Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you. Logan Pearsall Smith Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Logan Pearsall Smith Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. Logan Pearsall Smith Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. Logan Pearsall Smith I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. Logan Pearsall Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Logan Pearsall Smith Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation. Logan Pearsall Smith The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. Logan Pearsall Smith The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. Logan Pearsall Smith There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. Logan Pearsall Smith To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know Logan Pearsall Smith 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 keep absolutely sober. Logan Pearsall Smith What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say Logan Pearsall Smith There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. Logan Pearsall Smith The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. Logan Pearsall Smith will friends process together If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. Logan Pearsall Smith look you soul losing
