The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Arnold BennettAny change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold BennettI think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
Arnold BennettWe need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Arnold Bennett