Arthur Helps

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

— Arthur Helps

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

— Arthur Helps

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

— Arthur Helps

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.

— Arthur Helps

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

— Arthur Helps

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

— Arthur Helps

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

— Arthur Helps

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

— Arthur Helps

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for…

— Arthur Helps

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

— Arthur Helps

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

— Arthur Helps

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify…

— Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

— Arthur Helps

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

— Arthur Helps

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

— Arthur Helps

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to…

— Arthur Helps

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for…

— Arthur Helps

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and…

— Arthur Helps

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the…

— Arthur Helps

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

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on…

— Arthur Helps

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and…

— Arthur Helps

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence…

— Arthur Helps

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful…

— Arthur Helps

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her…

— Arthur Helps

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,…

— Arthur Helps

A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek…

— Arthur Helps

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent…

— Arthur Helps

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity…

— Arthur Helps

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of…

— Arthur Helps

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events…

— Arthur Helps

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of…

— Arthur Helps

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

— Arthur Helps

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

— Arthur Helps

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

— Arthur Helps

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

— Arthur Helps

Experience is the extract of suffering.

— Arthur Helps

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

— Arthur Helps

It takes a great man to make a great listener

— Arthur Helps