I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments. A. C. Benson More Quotes by A. C. Benson More Quotes From A. C. Benson Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. A. C. Benson change motivational positive The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. A. C. Benson fear loss reality People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end. A. C. Benson ends goes-on people The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. A. C. Benson soul doors joy As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. A. C. Benson mystery-novels beautiful world A well begun is half ended. A. C. Benson half plato action 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. A. C. Benson nine reason believe I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority. A. C. Benson authority people It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without. A. C. Benson overcoming helping sometimes Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world. A. C. Benson expensive appearance world Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. A. C. Benson moving-forward change needs People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. A. C. Benson helping-others inspirational people Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love. A. C. Benson writing love life Congenial labor is the secret of happiness. A. C. Benson labor secret happiness It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. A. C. Benson paper inspirational way Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. A. C. Benson ambition work men 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 self-esteem teacher life A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. A. C. Benson giving book needs 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. A. C. Benson simple letters talking What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift. A. C. Benson uplifting song beauty
