A. C. Benson Quotes

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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 being shown this.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.