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

age
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

-Norman Douglas

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

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

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

society
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

-Norman Douglas

wisdom
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

-Norman Douglas

wisdom
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

-Norman Douglas

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

work

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