A. C. Benson Quotes

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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.

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

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.