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.
secret importance
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
views forever may
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
life vanity social
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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.
advice stories half
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
ignorance simple names
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
ignorance foolishness
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
life drawing mind
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.
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.
gratitude spring grateful
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.