149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.