Arthur Helps Quotes (28 Quotes)

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

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

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports

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.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

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.

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

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

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

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.