All Arthur Helps Quotes
- 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
- Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Barren
- There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no… Beauty
- Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the… Average
- A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. Action
- A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Admiration
- Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? Anything Less
- The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. Advice
- Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. Ape
- Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Any
- The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is… Cannot Make