A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan P. Smith Quote

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

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.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

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

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

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 P. Smith Quote

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

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 stay sober.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
- Logan P. Smith Quote

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- Logan P. Smith Quote

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
- Logan P. Smith Quote

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Logan P. Smith Quote