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
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 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.
time play long
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.
people age fiction
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
kings war rome
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
wise wisdom heart
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.
character men advice
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
life vanity social
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
half world exhibitions
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
wisdom suffering
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
appreciation war civilization
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.