Arthur Helps

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

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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.

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.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.