Norman Douglas

“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?”

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

“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”

“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.”