Arnold Bennett

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. ”

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 price of justice is eternal publicity. ”

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

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

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. ”

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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