Arthur Helps Quotes

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.

Be cheerful: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.