Quotes by A C Benson

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

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

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly...

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do....

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys...

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery...

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the...

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape....

A well begun is half ended.