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 SmilesGreat men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
Samuel SmilesThe women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
Samuel Smiles