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. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
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. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. Samuel Smiles Read Quote
