Arthur Christopher Benson

“A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.”

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

“All the pleasantest things in the world are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

“The worst of being a sublime genius is that you have to be clever all the time.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-mindedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.”

“I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine.”

“The moment that any life is treated as a means to an end, something sacred is lost.”

“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion... that is a friend who cares.”

“Congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”

“What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, and a possession for all eternity.”

“The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them.”

“Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?”

“It seems to me that the only way to be what I call religious is to find God in everything.”