Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. — Arthur Helps Giving Copy Share Image
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — Arthur Helps Foolishness Copy Share Image
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte. — Arthur Helps Argument Copy Share Image
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps Ignorance Copy Share Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Disappointed Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that… — Arthur Helps Blunders Copy Share Image
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful… — Arthur Helps Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on… — Arthur Helps Bystanders Copy Share Image
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and… — Arthur Helps Beauty Copy Share Image
No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of… — Arthur Helps Charity Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity… — Arthur Helps Advancement Copy Share Image
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Action Copy Share Image
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events… — Arthur Helps Accident Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. — Arthur Helps Happiness Copy Share Image
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps Boredom Copy Share Image
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. — Arthur Helps Inspirational Copy Share Image
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. — Arthur Helps Admiration Copy Share Image
