Arthur Helps > Quotes

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
― Arthur Helps

“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”
― Arthur Helps

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
― Arthur Helps

“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.”
― Arthur Helps

“Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.”
― Arthur Helps

“Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.”
― Arthur Helps