112 Quotes by Arthur Helps

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

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.

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.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race. One has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is a great advance for a person to be profoundly loving, even in his or her imagination.

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.