It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. – 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 from the top. – Arnold Bennett
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – Arnold Bennett
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. – 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
Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl