Logan Smith

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other's fur.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty!

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection - even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano - is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.