Arnold Bennett ( 10 of 16 )
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture read more
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy read more
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.
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is read more
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to read more
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior read more
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
