Quotes by Arthur Helps

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

#Affection

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

#Boredom

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a...

#Cosmetics

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

#Disappointment

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

#Choice, #Friends, #Writers

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

#Strength

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought

#Reading