Quotes from benson stella iii

Knowledge is but a painful effort wasted, A bitter drowning in a bitter sea.

Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canary as a substitute for a husband.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

It's very wrong to take less money than you're worth.

Men are proud of being men, and that is one of the greatest virtues.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door; So I have built Today, the day that I desired, Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more.

There are few penances easier than early rising on board ship. There are no inducements to stay upon the implacable plane that is your bunk, in the hot square cube that is your cabin.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people -- the autobiographists and the biographists.

I will repent me of my ways; I will come here and bury Five thousand odd superfluous days Beneath a flow'ring cherry.

War is like air, in every house, in every land, on every sea.

There is always a romance that we leave behind in London, and always London enlocks that flower for us, and keeps it fresh, so that when we come back we have our romance again.

The men of the Foreign Legion bring their own worlds with them from their own places; their only common ground is intoxication.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

After all, the past is such a little thing, one can drown it in a drop. And the future is so big.