Best Quotes by Arthur Helps (Top 9)

  1. Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
  2. Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
  6. In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
  7. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
  8. Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
  9. The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.