Arthur Helps Quotes
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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.
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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.
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We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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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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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.
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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.
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