Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. – Arnold Bennett
Happiness 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 Bennett
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. – Arnold Bennett
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. – Arnold Bennett
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – Arnold Bennett
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. – Arnold Bennett
