1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Timothy Shay Arthur

Timothy Shay Arthur Quotes

Timothy Shay Arthur — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There , which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.

He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America.

✵ 6. June 1809 – 6. March 1885
Timothy Shay Arthur photo
Timothy Shay Arthur: 3   quotes 0   likes

Famous Timothy Shay Arthur Quotes

“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.”

Timothy Shay Arthur

Grappling with the Monster; Or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink (1877), Ch. 4

“How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.”

Timothy Shay Arthur

The Mother’s Rule; or, The Right Way and the Wrong Way (1856), Preface

“The gratification of one desire only makes way for another still more exacting.”

Timothy Shay Arthur

Advice to Young Men on Their Duties and Conduct in Life (1848), p. 31

Similar authors

Ivan Turgenev photo
Ivan Turgenev 7
Russian writer
Ambrose Bierce photo
Ambrose Bierce 204
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu…
Guy De Maupassant photo
Guy De Maupassant 59
French writer
Gustave Flaubert photo
Gustave Flaubert 98
French writer (1821–1880)
Elbert Hubbard photo
Elbert Hubbard 141
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el …
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 94
English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, …
Anton Chekhov photo
Anton Chekhov 222
Russian dramatist, author and physician
Jean Paul photo
Jean Paul 16
German novelist
Joseph Conrad photo
Joseph Conrad 127
Polish-British writer
Charles Dickens photo
Charles Dickens 116
English writer and social critic and a Journalist