Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”

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

“There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.”

“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.”

“People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.”

“If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.”

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

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

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