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
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – 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
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