Arthur Helps
Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCLwas an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 July 1813
Arthur Helps quotes about
mixtures recipes affection
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
wise lonely retirement
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
leadership party eye
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.
leadership men causes
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
strong thinking mind
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
gratitude way favour
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
secret importance
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
jealous deception may
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
character errors feelings
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
character world concern
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
character may action
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
spring despair mountain
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
overcoming danger has-beens
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
character men opinion
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.