Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. – Arnold Bennett
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. – Arnold Bennett
Because 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 virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett