You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Norman Douglas

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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

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