The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — Arthur Helps Foolishness Copy Share Image
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence… — Arthur Helps Accomplished Copy Share Image
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. — Arthur Helps Common Copy Share Image
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. — Arthur Helps Inspirational Copy Share Image
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of… — Arthur Helps Has beens Copy Share Image
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which… — Arthur Helps Accounts Copy Share Image
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events… — Arthur Helps Accidents Copy Share Image
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps Apes Copy Share Image
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. — Arthur Helps Tolerate Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Abundance 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 Ancient Copy Share Image
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to… — Arthur Helps Bears Copy Share Image
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to… — Arthur Helps Average Copy Share Image
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps Ignorance Copy Share Image
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. — Arthur Helps Books Copy Share Image
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps Boredom Copy Share Image
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. — Arthur Helps Danger Copy Share Image
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Claims Copy Share Image
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. — Arthur Helps Atmosphere Copy Share Image
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead… — Arthur Helps Credulity Copy Share Image
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. — Arthur Helps Giving Copy Share Image
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence,… — Arthur Helps Character Copy Share Image
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in… — Arthur Helps Chairs Copy Share Image
