34 ordspråk av Sir Arthur Helps
Sir 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 environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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.
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it
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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.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.
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We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
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