Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Norman Douglas
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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
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
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.