Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: God, Mammon)

"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: People, Words)

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Money, Work, Artists, Devil, Popular)

"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Friends, Old, Will)

"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: People, Evil)

"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Dying, Friends)

"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Body, Conscience, Years)

"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Company, World)

"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Fashion)

"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: People, Aspirations, Will)

"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(Related: Danger)