42 Quotes by A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.