Arthur Helps Quotes
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 chill of your spiritual environment.
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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 at.
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.