67 Quotes by Norman Douglas

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.