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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part read more
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
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.
