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.
character men opinion
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
ignorance simple names
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
made blunders bus
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
men belief bureaucracy
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
believe men infidelity
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."
funny money luxury
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
dying-slowly boredom faculty
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
book men action
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
children boys men
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
mistake humility important-events
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
weakness prominent
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
blessing america discovery
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.