Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”

“Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world.”

“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!”

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

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

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

“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 has achieved the second.”

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”