Quotes by : Samuel Smiles

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine,....

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship,....

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road....

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the....

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures.....

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must....

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have....