“ Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. 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… 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 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
“ Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the… Arnold Bennett
“ Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. 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… Arnold Bennett
“ We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something use… Arnold Bennett
“ Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. Arnold Bennett
“ The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them. Arnold Bennett
“ A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry. 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
“ Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. Arnold Bennett
“ Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion. Arnold Bennett
