You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. Norman Douglas on age
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas on education
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. Norman Douglas on happiness
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Norman Douglas on respect
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Norman Douglas on society
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. Norman Douglas on wisdom
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Norman Douglas on wisdom
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas on wisdom
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. Norman Douglas on work
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Norman Douglas on wisdom