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

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith

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

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Logan Pearsall Smith