The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

- Ernest Dimnet

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

- Ernest Dimnet

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

- Ernest Dimnet

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

- Ernest Dimnet

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

- 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

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

- Ernest Dimnet

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

- Ernest Dimnet