There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. – Logan Pearsall Smith
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. – 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
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? – Logan Pearsall Smith
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! – Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world. – Logan Pearsall Smith
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. – Logan Pearsall Smith
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? – 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 stay sober. – Logan Pearsall Smith
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. – Logan Pearsall Smith
