A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
SAMUEL SMILESThe women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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