A. C. Benson

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

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