Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931) was an English novelist

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The moment you're born you're done for.
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

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