Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett
If egotism means a terrific interest in ones self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. – 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
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Arnold Bennett