A. C. Benson

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ”

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. ”

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. ”

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. ”

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. ”

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. ”

A well begun is half ended. ”

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ”

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ”