A collection of quotes by Ernest Dimnet.
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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
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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.
