Quote

A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

Arthur Helps

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
Biographer
Historian
Writer
Sir Arthur Helps
Character
Judgment
Concealed
May
Places
Metals
Human
Except
Sentiments
Humans
Existence
Error
Great
Feelings
Precious
Time
Found
Suppose
Nature
Errors
Sandy
Earth
Surface
Frequent

More quotes by Arthur Helps

Image
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.
Arthur Helps
Image
It takes a great man to make a great listener
Arthur Helps
Image
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
Arthur Helps
Image
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
Image
They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
Arthur Helps
Image
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Arthur Helps
Image
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
Arthur Helps
Image
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Arthur Helps
Image
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
Arthur Helps
Image
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Arthur Helps
Image
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps
Image
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
Arthur Helps
Image
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Arthur Helps
Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
Arthur Helps
Image
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps
Image
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
Arthur Helps
Image
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps
Image
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
Arthur Helps
Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
Arthur Helps
Image
Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
Arthur Helps