112 Quotes by Arthur Helps

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

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.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.