Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council.
7 quotes.
Quotes by Arthur Helps
- Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascending a little, you may often overlook it altogether.
- It takes a great man to make a good listener.
- More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
- Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
- Tact is the result of refined sympathy.
- There is a gift that is almost a blow, and there is a kind word that is munificence; so much is there in the way of doing things.
- To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly; he who aspires to nothing, and learns nothing, is not worthy of living.