Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas
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
There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889