Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have… — 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 altogether. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. — Arthur Helps Copy Share
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. — Arthur Helps Copy Share
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to… — Arthur Helps Copy Share
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom. — Arthur Helps Copy Share
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. — Arthur Helps Copy Share
I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. — Arthur Helps Copy Share
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often… — Arthur Helps Copy Share
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. — Arthur Helps Copy Share
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Copy Share
