A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Bensonwas an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 April 1862
work essence labor
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
work ambition men
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
british-author continuous form
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
best british-author interests stories
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.
overcoming helping sometimes
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
simple talking letters
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.
sticks jam pot
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
sympathy thinking views
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
business mean decision
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
real real-life may
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
happiness secret labor
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
needs needed persons
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
people mind dawn
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
disappointment may sitting
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.