Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – 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
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. – Arnold Bennett
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. – Arnold Bennett
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. – Jonathan Sacks