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

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan Pearsall Smith. View more images...

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. - Logan Pearsall Smith. View more images...

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. View more images...

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. View more images...

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. - Logan Pearsall Smith. View more images...