I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile.… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
