A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Logan P. Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan P. Smith
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
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan P. Smith
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
Logan P. Smith
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith
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
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Logan P. Smith
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan P. Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan P. Smith
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Logan P. Smith
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan P. Smith
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Logan P. Smith
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith
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
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Logan P. Smith
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