Arthur Christopher Benson

“People who deal with life generously and large-mindedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“All the pleasantest things in the world are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

“That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.”

“I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine.”

“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.”

“A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.”

“Congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”

“The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them.”

“Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?”

“The worst of being a sublime genius is that you have to be clever all the time.”

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion... that is a friend who cares.”

“It seems to me that the only way to be what I call religious is to find God in everything.”

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

“The moment that any life is treated as a means to an end, something sacred is lost.”

“What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, and a possession for all eternity.”