Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. — Arthur Helps Danger Copy Share Image
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. — Arthur Helps Books Copy Share Image
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. — Arthur Helps America Copy Share Image
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and… — Arthur Helps Arrangements Copy Share Image
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time,… — Arthur Helps Argument Copy Share Image
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Abundance Copy Share Image
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of… — Arthur Helps Charity Copy Share Image
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to… — Arthur Helps Bears Copy Share Image
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. — Arthur Helps Age Copy Share Image
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. — Arthur Helps Advice Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be. — Arthur Helps Action Copy Share Image
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for… — Arthur Helps Character Copy Share Image
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. — Arthur Helps Advice Copy Share Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify… — Arthur Helps Ancient Copy Share Image
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps Appreciation Copy Share Image
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
