112 Quotes by Arthur Helps

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.