Logan Pearsall Smith

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."

"May it be accounted for by the fact that the spirit of Puritanism, having been banished from the province of moral conduct, has found a refuge among the arts?"

"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!"

"The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of…"

"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."

"Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of these aspects which are best rendered in a fragmenta…"

"All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."