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
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
real civilization tolerance
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
men praise persons
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
pride atmosphere wickedness
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
disappointment philosopher mets
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
memories forgetfulness
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
success use made
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
honesty hypocrite expression
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.
greatness men quality
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
strong thinking mind
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
vices world tolerate
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
morning hard-work passion
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.
atmosphere looks may
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
thinking improvement worthy
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.