What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall SmithWhen we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.
Logan Pearsall SmithThis nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Logan Pearsall Smith