What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall SmithWhat is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall SmithWhen elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
Logan Pearsall SmithThe truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
Logan Pearsall Smith