Famous Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

Below are famous quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith - (1865 - 1946).

Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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

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

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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

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.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

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

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