Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold BennettIts language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Arnold BennettHappiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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