Quote

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

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
Civilization
War
Found
People
Appreciation
Measure

More quotes by Arthur Helps

Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
Arthur Helps
Image
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps
Image
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Arthur Helps
Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
Arthur Helps
Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
Arthur Helps
Image
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps
Image
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
Arthur Helps
Image
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Arthur Helps
Image
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
Image
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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
Image
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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