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 BennettJournalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold BennettThe second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.
Arnold Bennett