Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
SAMUEL SMILESMere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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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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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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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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