Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

The moment you're born you're done for.
Arnold Bennett

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Arnold Bennett

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett