Arthur Helps

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

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

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

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.

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.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

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.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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.