Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

American - Writer | October 18, 1865 - March 2, 1946

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Logan Pearsall Smith

LifeMindMy LifeInformationDown

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

PeopleYouYoungSayMoreThey Say

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

GoodLivePeopleConscienceSell

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith

JoySweetYearsBringHalfAway

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Logan Pearsall Smith

BeautifulPeopleWhoLikeHouses

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

FriendsFindDyingForgiveAmusing

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

PeopleYouYoungWillYoung People

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

GodOutServeSoonDiscoverSet

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

WordsPeopleMindsMattersOne Thing

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

ChillGrowBodyBadMoreFragile

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith

FashionSlaveAgainstWhoHeGoes

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Logan Pearsall Smith

WorkGoodMoneyGood WorkDevil

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