Arthur Helps People Quotations

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

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