A. C. Benson Quotes

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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.

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.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

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

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.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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