Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
SAMUEL SMILESHope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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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 spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
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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 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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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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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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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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