The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

- 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 environ…

- 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 tr…

- Arthur Helps

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of livi…

- Arthur Helps

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

- Arthur Helps

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

- Arthur Helps

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

- Arthur Helps

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

- Arthur Helps

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

- Arthur Helps