Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Arthur Helps
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. – Arthur Helps
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud