The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. – Arnold Bennett
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. – Arnold Bennett
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. – Arnold Bennett