Arthur Helps Time Quotations

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.