Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. – A. C. Benson
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. – A. C. Benson
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. – A. C. Benson
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. – A. C. Benson
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. – A. C. Benson
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. – A. C. Benson
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