Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
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.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

- Logan Pearsall Smith - Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"