Arthur Helps Quotes

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

Even the most careless people have a sort of aversion to signing things which they have never considered.

Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.

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

The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.

Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.

There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.

A very useful book might be written with the sole object of advising what parts of what books should be read. It should not be a book of elegant extracts, but should merely refer to the passages which are advised to be read. It might also indicate what are the chief works upon any given subject. For example, take rent; the important passages in Adam Smith, Ricardo, Jones, Mill, and other writers, should be referred to.