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
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.
men illusion he-man
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
real civilization tolerance
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
morning hard-work passion
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.
wise winning men
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.
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.
happiness self way
I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.
inspirational wise gratitude
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
organization order routine
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
inspirational spiritual heart
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
men light decision
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
reading book men
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
beauty humility grace
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.