National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
Samuel SmilesThe highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
Samuel SmilesTrue politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.
Samuel SmilesHonorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
Samuel SmilesNo good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.
Samuel Smiles