A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
A. C. BENSONA diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
A. C. BENSONI have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSONVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSONI think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A. C. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONPeople seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. BENSONI 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.
A. C. BENSONAmbition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSONThe joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
A. C. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSONAll the best stories in the world 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.
A. C. BENSONIt is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
A. C. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
A. C. BENSONI believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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