Arthur Helps Quotes
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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.
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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
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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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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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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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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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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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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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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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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.