Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. – Ernest Dimnet
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. – Ernest Dimnet
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. – Ernest Dimnet
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. – Ernest Dimnet
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. – Ernest Dimnet
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. – Ernest Dimnet
