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 SMILESAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Enthusiasm, 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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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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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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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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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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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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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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