Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Arthur Helps
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports. Arthur Helps
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. Arthur Helps
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying? 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 true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Arthur Helps
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. Arthur Helps
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Arthur Helps
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. Arthur Helps