Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

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

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection—even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano—is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... 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.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.