149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

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

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

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.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.