People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan Pearsall SmithWhat pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
Logan Pearsall SmithFine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Logan Pearsall SmithIf we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
Logan Pearsall Smith