112 Quotes by Arthur Helps

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.

They tell us that “Pity is akin to Love;” if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man’s darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.

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.”

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?

A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one’s self.