There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Accustomed Copy Share Image
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before… — Arthur Helps Common Copy Share Image
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. — Arthur Helps Advice Copy Share Image
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. — Arthur Helps Known Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Ascending Copy Share Image
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with… — Arthur Helps Circumstances Copy Share Image
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and… — Arthur Helps Beauty Copy Share Image
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character,… — Arthur Helps Advice Copy Share Image
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. — Arthur Helps Endurance Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Agents Copy Share Image
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of… — Arthur Helps Charity Copy Share Image
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte. — Arthur Helps Argument Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps Deceived Copy Share Image
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. — Arthur Helps Funny Copy Share Image
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. — Arthur Helps Causes Copy Share Image
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how… — Arthur Helps Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Ascending Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Action Copy Share Image
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. — Arthur Helps Importance Copy Share Image
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. — Arthur Helps Connected Copy Share Image
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion. — Arthur Helps Persons Copy Share Image
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps Appreciation Copy Share Image
