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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

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About Arthur Helps

English writer and civil servant who served as Clerk of the Privy Council. He wrote essays and dialogues on ethics, social questions, and governance and was an early advocate for animal welfare. He died in 1875.

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