An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

— 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

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

— Logan Pearsall 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 Pearsall Smith

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

— Logan Pearsall Smith

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

— Logan Pearsall Smith