Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. C. Benson

A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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.
A. C. Benson

All the best stories 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.
A. C. Benson