Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Age
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
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But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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