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
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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.
real civilization tolerance
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
greatness men quality
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
vices world tolerate
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
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.
thinking improvement worthy
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
beautiful kindness firefly
Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
patience endurance forbearance
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.