All Arthur Helps Quotes
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Avoiding
- There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting… Approbation
- Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers Become Disappointed
- Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. All
- No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. Both
- They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Akin
- There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. Common
- Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. Connected
- We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. Aware
- It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. Advice
- The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it. Boast
- What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. America
- The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. Advance
- Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom. Chains
- Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. Civilization
- Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. Few
- Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. Alas
- Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. All
- The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. Apparent
- A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young… Any
- We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from… All
- There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made… Always Say
- An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports. Belief
- Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought… Brood
- Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before… Chair