People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers. — 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
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify… — 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 measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. — 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 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 learns nothing,… — Arthur Helps 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 are often… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image