“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.”
Arthur Helps“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”
Arthur Helps“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
Arthur Helps“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.”
Arthur Helps“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.”
Arthur Helps“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”
Arthur Helps“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.”
Arthur Helps“Experience is the extract of suffering.”
Arthur Helps“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
Arthur Helps“If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.”
Arthur Helps“Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.”
Sir Arthur Helps