Arthur Helps Quotes & Sayings

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”

“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.”

“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”

“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.”

“A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.”

“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”

“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?”

“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”

“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.”