Sir Arthur Helps KCB DCL (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle and an early advocate of animal rights. (wikipedia)
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.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.