Samuel SmilesThinkers

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

The Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men. no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success.

Liberty is the result of free individual action, energy and independence.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Manners is the ornament of action.

Necessity is more the mother of invention than is facility; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.