149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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.

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

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.

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.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

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

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.