Arthur Christopher Benson

“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”

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

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

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

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

“I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.”

“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”

“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”

“Congenial labor is essence of happiness.”