Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad…

- Robert Hugh Benson

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... t…

- Robert Hugh Benson

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 tr…

- Robert Hugh Benson

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

- Robert Hugh Benson

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, inv…

- Robert Hugh Benson

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy…

- Robert Hugh Benson

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

- Robert Hugh Benson

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

- Robert Hugh Benson

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

- Robert Hugh Benson