Logan Pearsall Smith SmithThinkers

Aging is not always bad. There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

The Aphorism is a salted and not sugared almond at Reason's feast.

The Author is one who, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

The Author is one who ought to be valued not by what he says, but what he whispers.

Boredom is a transcendent thing. One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Old age is always picking finds with youth. The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assist in the circulation of the blood.

Old age is sometimes attractive. There are people who are beautiful in dilapidation, like houses that were hideous when new.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Wealth is a status whose wretchedness is having to live with rich people.