The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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.
More A. C. Benson Quotes
-
-
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSON -
I 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. BENSON -
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSON -
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. BENSON -
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSON -
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
A. C. BENSON -
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. BENSON -
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
A. C. BENSON -
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSON -
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. BENSON -
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.
A. C. BENSON -
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSON -
I 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.
A. C. BENSON -
It 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. BENSON -
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSON