He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

About Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines.

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer

I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

British American-born writer