Arnold Bennett

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

The chief beauty about timeis 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 misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.

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.