It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

— Arnold Bennett

It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

— Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

— Arnold Bennett

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

— Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

— Arnold Bennett

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

— Arnold Bennett

The chief beauty about times that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every houri you choose.

— Arnold Bennett

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

— Arnold Bennett

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

— Arnold Bennett

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

— Arnold Bennett