It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold BennettThe man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
Arnold BennettLiterature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
Arnold BennettBecause her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
Arnold Bennett