Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.
Smith, Logan Pearsall. Afterthoughts. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
Charles Krouthammer was a fellow political columnist but where shields was a pragmatist of the left, Krouthammer was an ideologue of the right. He was also a very well-read and informed man who spoke with great authority. Sometimes he was right and sometimes, wrong, but he was rarely in doubt.
Logan Pearsall Smith was 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. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, in 1938.
