The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Samuel Smiles

Where there is a will there is a way.

- Samuel Smiles

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

- Samuel Smiles

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

- Samuel Smiles

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

- Samuel Smiles

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

- Samuel Smiles

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 …

- Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

- Samuel Smiles