1866-1954, French Clergyman
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]