Arthur Helps Quotes
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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.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
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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.
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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.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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.
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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
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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.
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.