Robert Hugh Benson

The sense of home-coming was stronger than all else — that strange passion for a particular set of inanimate things — or, at the most, for an association of ideas — that has no parallel in human emotions.

In these days, when there is so much enterprise, money has become, as it were, a living thing that grows; or at the least a tool that can be used.

It is scarcely likely that men on fire with success, whether military or commercial, will be patient of the restraints of religion.

Nothing is so bad as not trusting God.

The tragedy of a child over a broken doll is not less poignant than the anguish of a worshipper over a broken idol, or of a king over a ruined realm.

Philosophers tell us that the value of existence lies not in the objects perceived, but in the powers of perception.

Speak from your heart...Be bold, yet not overbold.

Forward and backward all in one; that is the way she loves to be wooed. She is a woman, remember that.

Every man may err, but not the whole gathered together; for the whole hath a promise, but so hath not every particular man.

Cast away Authority, and authority shall forsake you.

Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is so easy, so easy.

Perhaps that is the reason that I think I see it all so plainly; just because I want to see it plainly.

A growing lad, while he is clumsier, yet manages to leap higher than a year ago.

The development of a nation is strangely paralleled by the development of an individual. There comes in both a period of adolescence, ... and there is a curious mingling of refinement and brutality, stupidity and tenderness.

Surely the King of Love needed no herald when Himself was here.

She has been taught to hold herself in, and not to show her feelings; and that, I think, is as much a drawback sometimes as wearing the heart upon the sleeve.

It is strange, sometimes, to find that some silent old lady has a power for sounding human character, which far shrewder persons lack.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons, is a Divine instinct.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light, and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.