They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. – Norman Douglas
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. – Norman Douglas
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. – Norman Douglas
The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. – Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas
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
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
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. – 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
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
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. – Norman Douglas
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – Norman Douglas
Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas
