Arthur Helps Quotes
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Helps, Arthur. Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. Wix, 1835, p. 74.
He was a great football and track & field star. When he was in college, he had played baseball during the summer recess and was paid $2 a game, a common practice for college athletes who played baseball under an assumed name. Thorpe’s school had no athletes who had done that before, and his experience with formal rules was very limited. There was no one at the Carlyle Indian School who could advise him. Later, that technicality was used to strip him of his amateur titles and medals. Despite that, he was voted as the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCL was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle and an early advocate of animal rights.
