Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#authority

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#dreaming #dreams

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

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#fashion #goes #himself #slave #who

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#convictions #dark #drag #forced #his

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#amusing #dying #find #forgive #friends

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#evil #flourish #only #people #think

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#delicate #finest #hearts #kind #make

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#few #matters #minds #one thing #people

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#discover #god #mammon #out #serve