Phrase by 'Samuel Smiles'

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Author: Samuel Smiles - Scottish Author
  Wisdom , Men , Perseverance , Road


Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Author: Samuel Smiles - Scottish Author
  Own , Knowledge , Labor , Property


Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Author: Samuel Smiles - Scottish Author
  Great , Men , Living , Dead


It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Author: Samuel Smiles - Scottish Author
  Heart , Man , Men , Curse


The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Author: Samuel Smiles - Scottish Author
  Home , Nature , Law , Discipline


We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Author: Samuel Smiles - Scottish Author
  Never , Will , Mistake , Finding


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