Arnold Bennett

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ”

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 challenge of life. ”

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. ”

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

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ”

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. ”

The moment you're born you're done for. ”

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