Arnold Bennett

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel th

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.