Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 - 17 June 1925), was a British essayist, poet and author, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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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.
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.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

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