All Arthur Helps Quotes
- 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
- Experience is the extract of suffering. Experience
- Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. Ceased
- Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race.… Advance
- The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving. Capacity
- It takes a great man to make a great listener Empathy
- Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. All
- Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to… Closest
- If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. Age
- Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor… Abundance
- The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. Any
- The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. Apprehended
- No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived… Arrived
- Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. Cheerfulness
- Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. Acts
- Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Every Happiness