Arthur Helps
Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCLwas an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 July 1813
men belief bureaucracy
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
gratitude spring grateful
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
spiritual loss self
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.
believe men infidelity
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."
funny money luxury
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
dying-slowly boredom faculty
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
book men action
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
children boys men
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
mistake humility important-events
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.
weakness prominent
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
blessing america discovery
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
financial wells anticipate
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
science men errors
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
freedom men chains
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.