Arthur Helps Quotes
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.
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.
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
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.
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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.
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
