Robert Hugh Benson Quotes
- Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty.…
- Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing…
- While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the…
- I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.
- Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the…
- It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.
- The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
- You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.
- The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
- It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them…