Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Arthur HelpsThe measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
Arthur HelpsThere is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.
Arthur Helps