Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there,… — 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
