3 Samuel Smiles Quotes on Society

Samuel Smiles quotes on society

4. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

5. 'Heaven helps those who help themselves' is a well tired maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of a vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.

10. It's a brutal book; it ought to be burnt by the common hangman. Smiles was the arch-Philistine, and his book the apotheosis of respectability, gigmanity, and selfish grab.