A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

— Arnold Bennett

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

Ardor in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, "I've had enough of this.

— Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

— Arnold Bennett

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

— Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

— Arnold Bennett

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

— Arnold Bennett

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

— Arnold Bennett