Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
SAMUEL SMILESWoman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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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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Character is itself a fortune.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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