The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

A child is an uncut diamond.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

Civilization sails prettily like a childs rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

Cunning is a short blanket if you pull it over your face you expose your feet.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Our sins are like a carousel where the same decorated dogs pigs and goats ridden by the foolish come around again and again until the machine wears out.

Delay is a bitter tonic but it increases appetite.

When the Devil is not fishing he is mending his nets.

A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle all neck and belly and no head.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.