Arnold Bennett

It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.

but it is less disastrous to waste eight hours a day than sixteen hours a day; it is better to have lived a bit than never to have lived at all.

if your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted

sleep is partly a matter of habit

Rise an hour, an hour and a half, or even two hours earlier; and—if you must—retire earlier when you can

One loses, in the study of cause and effect, that absurd air which so many people have of being always shocked and pained by the curiousness of life.

I tell you flatly

in accents of unmistakable sincerity,

put the whole of their force into their day's work and are genuinely fatigued at the end thereof.

it has been my lot to