Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. - Arnold Bennett
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. - Arnold Bennett
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. - Arnold Bennett
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. - Arnold Bennett
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. - Arnold Bennett
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. - Arnold Bennett
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. - Arnold Bennett
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. - Arnold Bennett
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality. - Arnold Bennett
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. - Arnold Bennett
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. - Arnold Bennett
The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose. - Arnold Bennett
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public. - Arnold Bennett