Quotes by Smith, Logan Pearsall

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest b >>

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it ar >>

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that ther >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of >>

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book >>

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the dev >>

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall