Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
SAMUEL SMILESThe experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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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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The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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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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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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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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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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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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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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