Arnold Bennett

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.