Quotes from Arthur Helps

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

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

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.

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.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

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

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

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.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

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.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

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.

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.