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
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps 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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
