Logan Pearsall Smith, (1865-1946), Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist Quotes
An evil name -- a drawback at first -- sheds luster on old age.
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.
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
A slight touch of friendly malice
and amusement towards those
we love keeps our affections
for them from turning flat.
A slight touch of friendly malice
and amusement towards those we
love keeps our affections
for them from turning flat.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Then I thought of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.