The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment.” — Sir Arthur Helps, Brevia
Works
[Except for Brevia, these are available from Project Gutenberg]
- Friends in Council
- The Claims of Labour
- The Life of Columbus
- The Life of Hernando Cortes
- Brevia
Excerpts from Brevia
- [How wars are actually declared]
- [A book advising what parts of what books should be read
- [Against machine-made ornament]
- [The Effects of the Telegraph]
- [“Fame in a Footnote” — A Scholar's Fame Hardly Worth Having]
- [Selfishness not the same as Egotism]
- [The squalldity of much Victorian housing]
- [Of all the resources of government, none are so wastefully employed as its powers of conferring honour]
- [I cannot recognise the justice of the present laws of copyright]
- [The ant is a most satirical creature]
Bibliography
[Helps, Sir Arthur]. Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms by the Author of “Friends in Council”. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. The reverse of the title page has the following: “Chiswick Press: — printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane [London].”
Last modified 5 December 2011