A. C. Benson Quotes

"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

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

"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

"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