The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them.

-Hancock, Lang(ley George)
Quoted in R  W Kent (ed) Money  Talks (1985).

It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven out far past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Nobel prize acceptance speech,10 Dec.

When stately ships are twirled and spun Like whipping tops and help there's none And mighty ships ten thousand ton Go down like lumps of lead.

-Hodgson, Ralph
  'Song of Honour'.

Speak now, and I will answer; How shall I help you, say; Ere to the wind's twelve quarters I take my endless way. 415

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.32.

Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern ona manstruggling for life inthewater, and,whenhehas reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Letter to Lord Chesterfield,7 Feb. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

   You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy† In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women.You must entirely resist both temptations, and while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy.Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.

-Herbert, 1st Earl
  Message to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, reported in The Times,19  Aug.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Letter to  J Middleton Murry, 2 Feb, on the death of Katherine Mansfield.

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends, Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.

-Paul
  'With a Little Help From My Friends'.

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

-Stein, Herbert
  Washington Bedtime Stories.