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 - [America]

Ideas are the roots of creation.
~ Ernest Dimnet - [Ideas]

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
~ Ernest Dimnet - [Life and Living]

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.
~ Ernest Dimnet - [Happiness]

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
~ Ernest Dimnet - [History and Historians]