Essays Quotes by Arthur Helps

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

— Arthur Helps

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

— Arthur Helps

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

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

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

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

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

— Arthur Helps

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.

— Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

— Arthur Helps

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

— Arthur Helps

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

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