Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful… — Arthur Helps Beautiful Copy Share Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps Closest Copy Share Image
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. — Arthur Helps Balanced Copy Share Image
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps Ifs Copy Share Image
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. — Arthur Helps Admiration Copy Share Image
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports. — Arthur Helps Belief Copy Share Image
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman,… — Arthur Helps Family Copy Share Image
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. — Arthur Helps Alas Copy Share Image
Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and… — Arthur Helps Arrangements Copy Share Image
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for… — Arthur Helps Character Copy Share Image
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. — Arthur Helps Language Copy Share Image
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. — Arthur Helps Betray Copy Share Image
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened… — Arthur Helps Chains Copy Share Image
No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for… — Arthur Helps Committed Copy Share Image
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers. — Arthur Helps Father Copy Share Image
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with. — Arthur Helps Happiness 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 Blunders Copy Share Image
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself. — Arthur Helps Favour Copy Share Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. — Arthur Helps Advice Copy Share Image
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Add Copy Share Image
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. — Arthur Helps Foundation Copy Share Image
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of… — Arthur Helps Charity 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 Age Copy Share Image