We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Arnold Bennett


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

Arnold Bennett


Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Arnold Bennett


Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Arnold Bennett


Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Arnold Bennett


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

Arnold Bennett


To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Arnold Bennett


It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett


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

Arnold Bennett


A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Arnold Bennett


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.

Arnold Bennett


The price of justice is eternal publicity.

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


It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

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