149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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

What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

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.