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 bravery example
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.
men illusion he-man
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
character men opinion
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
character men advice
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.
men belief bureaucracy
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
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."
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.
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.
men praise persons
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
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.
men fire bystanders
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.
fall men glasses
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.