The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith