The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
Arnold BennettThe great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold BennettBeware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
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