List of Arthur Helps Quotes

No Doubt Hard Work Is A Great Police Agent. If Everybody Were Worked From Morning Till Night, And Then Carefully Locked Up, The Register Of Crime Might Be Greatly Diminished. But What Would Become Of Human Nature? Where Would Be The Room For Growth In Such A System Of Things? It Is Through Sorrow And Mirth, Plenty And Need, A Variety Of Passions, Circumstances, And Temptations, Even Through Sin And Misery, That Men's Natures Are Developed.

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.

It Is A Weak Thing To Tell Half Your Story, And Then Ask Your Friend's Advice-a Still Weaker Thing To Take It.

Be Cheerful [and Grateful For The Good That You Have]: Do Not Brood Over Fond Hopes Unrealized Until A Chain Is Fastened On Each Thought And Wound Around The Heart. Nature Intended You To Be The Fountain-spring Of Cheerfulness And Social Life, And Not The Mountain Of Despair And Melancholy.

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.

Having Once Decided To Achieve A Certain Task, Achieve It At All Costs Of Tedium And Distaste. The Gain In Self Confidence Of Having Accomplished A Tiresome Labor Is Immense.

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 An Honesty Which Is But Decided Selfishness In Disguise. The Person Who Will Not Refrain From Expressing His Or Her Sentiments And Manifesting His Or Her Feelings, However Unfit The Time, However Inappropriate The Place, However Painful This Expression May Be, Lays Claim, Forsooth, To Our Approbation As An Honest Person, And Sneers At Those Of Finer Sensibilities As Hypocrites.

The Measure Of Civilization In A People Is To Be Found In Its Just Appreciation Of The Wrongfulness Of War.

Those Who Never Philosophized Until They Met With Disappointments, Have Mostly Become Disappointed Philosophers

Nature Intended You To Be The Fountain-spring Of Cheerfulness And Social Life, And Not The Mountain Of Despair And Melancholy.

Offended Vanity Is The Great Separator In Social Life.